Usually, the most impressive competitor to a Microsoft product is the most recent prior version of that same Microsoft product.
Windows 10 is still the biggest competitor to Windows 11 in raw numbers, but I'm pretty certain this is the first time in Microsoft's history that its most impressive competitor was the *FOURTH* most recent prior version, Windows 7.
That makes surprising sense to me, because 7 was current when Steve Ballmer bonged an iPhone and saw Windows 8 in that high.
I don't have much reason to believe folks are downgrading from 10 to 7, but a few of my customers have stubbornly hung on to the win7 PCs, & I know a few have talked about getting their win7 PCs out of storage when win10 EOS arrives.
But I am absolutely giggling at the thought of Windows 10 users reacting to the EOS news by universally saying fuck it and going back to 7.
@arielmt Win10 EOL and the shenanigans surrounding Win11 and copilot is the ultimate reason I finally abandoned the windows platform. Win11 is just a hard pass, and frankly I'm not happy with how they've gone with 10 over the years either, so... yeah, I can see that.