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Too technical. Nearly a thousand people chose "Other" and then wrote in their reason. I read every one of those responses and categorized them manually, a painstaking process.

That left a total of 2, usable responses. The number-one reason people are sticking with Windows 7? There's no contest. The specifics included some esoteric equipment, including one person with a legacy CNC milling machine, plenty of old peripherals that don't have Windows 10 drivers, and several people who paid for Adobe Creative Suite perpetual licenses and have no desire to upgrade.

Among the write-in responses the biggest group was made up of fans of Windows Media Center , who collectively added up to roughly 1. Their loyalty is impressive. But I counted nearly the same number of people who chose the Other box and then made it clear from their reply that they had picked Windows 7 over its logical successor, Windows People who just don't like Windows 10 made up the biggest chunk of respondents.

People called out the user interface, bugs, and stability, in particular. About one in four of the "I don't like Windows 10" group used strong enough language that I created a separate "Windows 10 sucks" category. Many used that exact phrase, while others threw in overheated words like "garbage," "crap," dumpster fire," and a few choice phrases that I can't repeat here.

A slightly smaller camp had no particular problem with Windows 10 but preferred Windows 7. Just under half of this group praised Windows 7 because "it just works. A slightly larger group said they believe "Windows 7 is better than Windows A word that appeared over and over again was "control," especially in the context of security updates. More on that in a minute. I was surprised that so many people chose this option, especially when the Windows 10 upgrade is still free.

For details, see "Here's how you can still get a free Windows 10 upgrade. The most poignant example came from a reader in Iran, who said, "In Iran we have a bad situation" and the cost of the upgrade was too high. An unsurprising number of people expressed their extreme displeasure with "forced updates," "buggy updates," and the "feature churn" with twice-yearly updates. Get Windows Are you looking for Windows 10 Home or Windows 10 Pro?

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