Win8 has officially retired! Is upgrading Win8.1/Win10 or returning to Win7?

In the past few days, Baidu searched "Microsoft", the first thing I saw was not the link of Microsoft's official website, but the Win10 advertisement &mdash with &#dm; this company has been trying to persuade people to put the original as soon as possible. Upgrade your Windows system to the latest Win10.

In addition to active lobbying, Microsoft has adopted some practices that seem quite mandatory. On January 10th, Microsoft announced that it will officially stop providing technical support for Win 8 on January 12th. Those who are still using Win8 will not be able to receive security updates from Microsoft in the future.

However, Microsoft users can still update to Win8.1 for free, and Win7 and Win8.1 users will upgrade to Win10 for free before July 29 this year. After that, they will need to pay for the upgrade.

I have to say that in order to make more Win8 users realize that "no chance to upgrade without further upgrades", Microsoft has spent a lot of thought.

According to the interface news reporter, January 13 is the time for Microsoft to send a system update patch, but since January 10 announced the suspension of technical support for Win8, the update patch is only Win7, Win8. 1 and Win10 users. If you don't do this, Microsoft still needs to release the Win8 update patch again, which means that the time for Win8 retirement" will continue to be delayed.

Win8 was once regarded by Microsoft as a revolutionary system, but from the feedback of many users, the system can not catch up with people's love for XP system. Even some users describe Win8 as “the second Vista”, and think that Win8's changes to the desktop environment are too radical.

According to the research data released by the market research firm Net Application in November 2015, Windows 8 has a market share of only 2.6% and Windows 8.1 of 10.72%. Windows 7 is still the most widely used Windows operation, with a market share of 56.53% as of the end of September 2015. Windows XP has grown by 0.07% to 12.21%.

For Microsoft, Win8 users are the easiest people to use to upgrade to Win10 among all the users of the "old" system. It should be known that Win10 not only represents Microsoft's latest operating system technology, but also bears the responsibility of reversing Microsoft's current situation and grabbing market share from Apple and Android in the mobile market.

Win10 is different from any of the previously released systems from Microsoft. It provides a unified platform for all hardware that uses Microsoft services and covers Windows devices of all sizes and categories. If Microsoft can win more users in the mobile and commercial sectors, it can also achieve greater business value.

According to Microsoft's plan, it is necessary to implement 1 billion devices to install Win10 system within 2-3 years, but from the current expansion results, the installation speed of Win10 has been slow.

According to the data released by market research firm Statista, Win10 caught up with Win7 in the first three months after its release. After six months of release, it accounted for 9.96%, more than Win8, but still Can't keep up with the speed of Win7.

Another report from Civic Science shows that nearly half of users (49%) said they have no plans to upgrade their systems, and only 21% of users will be upgraded within a year.

To some extent, Microsoft's move to stop technical support for Win8 has had a limited effect on stimulating a large number of users to upgrade to the Win10 system. To know that Microsoft suspended the XP update with high popularity in 2014, there are still a large number of users who use third-party anti-virus software to protect their data security.

Of course, the patches provided by Microsoft can indeed block security vulnerabilities from the bottom, which is not available in other protection software. Therefore, there are few reasons why Win8 users don't have to upgrade to Win 8.1 or Win 10. Or is it back to Win7?

Related reading; Microsoft will stop supporting Win8 next week (January 12) Please upgrade Win8.1 or Win10