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When Windows 10 came along, people happily moved over from 8.x, as it was such an improvement

That's... not how I remember it. What I remember is that people hated the first Windows 10 builds so much that Microsoft not only couldn't give it away for free, but they had to use deceptive techniques -- essentially leveraging Windows Update as a malware distribution channel -- to force them to upgrade.

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That's not I remember it. My company at that time completely skipped windows 8, I can count with an hand the people I knew that used windows 8 at all, almost everybody jumped from 7 to 10.

I didn't say anything about Windows 8, except to comment that it makes a convenient straw man for historical revisionism.

The market share of Windows 10 versus Windows 7 speaks for itself.

"people hated the first Windows 10 builds so much" I don't remember this at all, quite the opposite, I remember being one of the last to switch from 7 to 10 at my company, everybody on 10 was quite happy.

I don't remember any popular software releases called ShutUp7 or ShutUp8, just ShutUp10.

As a software developer myself, I consider it a bad sign when other people make money selling software to change the way my software works.

Windows 10 was published almost 8 years ago, it changed quite a lot since then. Look at shutup10 changelog, first versions features were quite different.

Yeah admittedly it's been a while, and it didn't help that most of my peer group was in the 7 camp, but after some initial hesitation and "let's wait for others to try it first", Windows 8 folks seemed rather happy about the free upgrade. I can think of only one person from my group that really loved 8 and only just switched when 8.1 support ended.

The reception of 10 was pretty good and a step in the right direction from the tablet/desktop aio that was 8 and 8.1. Plus it was free and didn’t have as many restriction to upgrade as say 11. It was a challenge for enterprise but people adopted 10 fairly quickly. Even if you google the stats of it :

https://www.businessinsider.com/windows-10-adoption-rate-vs-...

It didn't "sell." Upgrades were free (and still are, AFAIK.)

Windows 8 was widely (and correctly) perceived as a disaster, so it's not a valid benchmark for market share comparison. Windows 7 was the target Microsoft wanted to hit, and that didn't happen until Q4 2018: https://windowsreport.com/windows-10-7-market-share/

Erm. Thats not how I remember it. There was a lot of "Microsoft forcing Windows 7 and 8.1 users to install Windows 10" articles in that time. Articles "How to STOP Windows 7 auto Upgrade to Windows 10" was popular too in that time.

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