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About 184 million commercial PCs - in small- and mid-sized businesses, in large enterprises and in government agencies - are still running the quickly aging Windows 7, according to Microsoft.

That number included all markets except for China, the company said, with the largest percentage - one in four PCs, or approximately 46 million - in the U.S.

(Microsoft's number is just a fraction of the latest estimates of Windows 7's pervasiveness calculated by Computerworld using share data; that calculation pegged Windows 7 global consumer and commercial footprint at around 709 million PCs. The commercial side of that 709 million would be approximately 390 million using the long-accepted 55%-45% ratio of commercial/consumer PCs. Yet even that reduced number would be more than twice Microsoft's mark, leaving one to wonder if China had more than 200 million Windows 7 PCs, or if Computerworld's figure was out in left field. Presumably, Microsoft's number is the most accurate, as it was based on machine-to-Microsoft telemetry.)

From: Susan Bradley

To: Mr. Satya Nadella, Mr. Carlos Picoto and Mr. Scott Guthrie

Dear Sirs:

Today, as Windows 10 turns three years old, I am writing to you to ensure that you are aware of the dissatisfaction your customers have with the updates released for Windows desktops and servers in recent months. The quality of updates released in the month of July, in particular, has placed customers in a quandary: install updates and face issues with applications, or don't install updates and leave machines subject to attack.

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