Tuesday, January 13
Daily News Stuff 13 January 2026
I Ain't What You Do Edition
I Ain't What You Do Edition
Top Story
- With support for Windows 10 ending last October, user numbers for Windows 11 climbed to an all time high. Which was only to be expected.
Less expected was that the numbers for Windows 11 have been dropping ever since. (MSN)
Over the last two months Windows 11 has fallen from 53.7% of the PC market to a very slim majority at 50.7%, with Windows 10 growing from 42.7% to 44.7%, and most of the remainder going to Windows 7, which came out all the way back in 2009.
This is not particularly good news for Microsoft.
Tech News
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is deeply hurt by all the negative opinions of AI. (Tom's Hardware)
He has no mouth and he must whine.
- A quantitative analysis of the cost of overreliance on AI advice. (Science Direct)
A very dry paper, but in short decision makers tend to over-rely on AI advice even when it directly contradicts available empirical data. And this was in the context of an iterated prisoner's dilemma scenario, where optimal strategies are simple and well-known.
- With contract prices for DRAM rising 70% and NAND flash by 100%, memory now accounts for 20% of the cost of a mobile phone. (WCCFTech)
Which is not all that much.
- Amazon bought a Bee. (Tech Crunch)
Bee makes a wearable AI thing, which is to say, useless overpriced junk.
- VMWare ESXi has a -365 day vulnerability. (Bleeping Computer)
If a zero-day vulnerability is one that must be fixed immediately because it is open to instant exploitation, what do you call one that has been actively exploited for a year before the developers notice?
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I wonder how much of that is due to people going back to win10 vs people leaving windows for linux (or macos).
Posted by: Rick C at Wednesday, January 14 2026 02:11 AM (tCA/g)
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Back to Windows fer Wokegroups 3.11!
Upsides: No ads in the start menu. Also no start menu.
Downsides: Can only play minesweeper when you really want to download naughty pictures at work. Have to install your own TCP/IP stack to use Internet! (O, wait that's an upside, actually)
Upsides: No ads in the start menu. Also no start menu.
Downsides: Can only play minesweeper when you really want to download naughty pictures at work. Have to install your own TCP/IP stack to use Internet! (O, wait that's an upside, actually)
Posted by: normal at Wednesday, January 14 2026 06:28 AM (e0fX0)
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Well, how many people actually have a way to install Windows 7? That gives you an estimate for how many folks simply dropped out of whatever mechanism for assessing market share. Which is probably Linux or Apple. Looking at the statcounter graphs, and especially looking at the regional numbers confirms this. These numbers are percentile, and only comparing windows to windows. The regions have different rates of refusing to use 11, and different times where they tried 11 and had a reaction.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Wednesday, January 14 2026 08:14 AM (rcPLc)
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I still have some XP install disks. Can that even work without the Authentication servers?
Posted by: Mauser at Wednesday, January 14 2026 02:54 PM (XWgGM)
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Some fan groups are trying to create updated versions of Win7. If it gets reclassified as abandonware and they succeed, I'd laugh all the way to the store.
Posted by: Frank at Wednesday, January 14 2026 03:55 PM (amxkj)
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Yes, XP can work without the authentication servers, the code generation and the authentication protocol have been successfully cracked.
I think that maybe running it in a virtual machine on linux might be safer than connecting it directly to the interwebs.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Thursday, January 15 2026 12:39 AM (rcPLc)
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