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  • Windows 10 1809 adoption rate is slow. And that’s good!

    Posted on January 7, 2019 at 07:53 CST by • Comment in the Forums

    Gregg Keizer has his usual thorough review of the situation: No matter how you slice it, adoption of the latest version of the last version of Windows is going at a snail’s pace:

    According to statistics gathered by AdDuplex… Windows 10 October 2018 Update – 1809… had been installed on just 6.6% of all Windows 10 systems by year’s end. That was a small fraction of the 53.6% powered by 1709 – Windows 10’s second feature upgrade of 2017 – at the close of that year.

    I think that’s great. Microsoft’s showing some long-overdue restraint in forcing Win10 users onto the next version. We saw repeated bloodbaths on the forced upgrades last year. Maybe this year we’ll seem some sanity return to the Win10 scene.

    People are fretting over the delay in 1809 and how that’ll impact the delivery of the next-next version of Win10, code named “19H1.” I think it’s been obvious for quite a while that MS will let the next version slide until much later in the first half of 2019 — thus the “H1” part of 19H1 — and that the decision to do so was made more than six months ago.

    I hope, nay pray, that this means our every-six-months upgrade treadmill is coming to an end.

    Time will tell, but it’s one more hopeful sign that Microsoft may not end up killing Windows. Maybe.

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