Microsoft keeps surprising me. Or maybe not.
From time to time I check out the market share of Windows versions. When Microsoft announced that Windows 10 users could buy a year of updates for $ 30, the Windows 11 market share actually dropped. Apparently from Windows 11 users who rushed back to Windows 10!
Now they have a new trick. If you pay 1000 Microsoft Rewards or let your system backup to Onedrive you save that $ 30,-. Given the fact that you could limit that backup to as little as only your Desktop directory content, what makes this worth $30,- for Microsoft. I wonder if they target users who use Windows without a Microsoft account which is necessary for backup to Onedrive.
The result of this new offer? Windows 11 market share dropped significantly, from 53,5% End July to 45,6% end August (https://gs.statcounter.com/windows-vers ... /worldwide)
The Windows 11 on my laptop works like Windows 10 thanks to ExplorerPatcher (https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/detail ... tcher.html) . No adds or other nagging, probably because of the settings of O&O shutup.
One final thing I could not resist to quote, from https://www.windowscentral.com/microsof ... axy-fold-7:
Half-baked first attempts, obvious lack of continued investment, constant backtracking and overhauling, unnecessary cannibalization from overlapping Microsoft projects, inconsistent and unreliable communication, shameless trend-chasing — Microsoft suffers from it all and never learns from its mistakes, leading to a lot of shattered potential (and a whole lot of lost jobs).
I couldn't agree more.
Dick