The Windows 7 Renaissance? StatCounter shows surge in usage

4 pointsposted 3 months ago
by Stasshe

Item id: 45713015

6 Comments

chasing0entropy

3 months ago

I imagine people have realized there have been no improvements in windows 10/11 but in reality I think it has to do with changes to Windows 10's activation checks. Windows 7 would also be almost impossible to post- patch with AI / LLM garbage which actually makes me want to pull out my old VLK discs..

Stasshe

3 months ago

these days, people,especially shareholders tend to think AI is better than sinear, old hand engineer.

The lower limit of product quality has risen, but the upper limit has fallen.

what a tragedy.

iefbr14

3 months ago

It is probably just a rise in the number of automated scrapers/bots that use a windows 7-like user agent.

Stasshe

3 months ago

Yeah, defanately. But why don't use Linux? that's the better option,I think.

borplk

3 months ago

If it's due to the user-agent, the bots could be any OS they may just be pretending to be Windows 7.