Windows 10: Windows 10 market share continues to increase as Windows 7 falls again

The latest stats published by NetMarketShare shows that Windows 10 operating system has once again managed to increase its market share at expense of Windows 7. Windows 10’s new user base is mostly made of people coming from older Windows versions.

According to the latest report by NetMarketShare, Microsoft’s Windows 10 now holds 37.80% market share and Windows 7 has 40.27% market share. While Windows 7 dropped by around one percent, Windows 10 showed strong growth as the market shared jump from 36.58 to 37.80%.



By the looks of things, Windows 10 did manage to increase its share by stealing some users from Windows 7.

According to Microsoft, Windows 10 is on around 700 million devices and it’s growing. The situation is likely to improve later this year when the new Windows 10 update and devices would become available for consumers.

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Vista Continues to Gain Market Share

Despite its criticisms, Microsoft’s latest operating system is gradually becoming more popular, with XP’s market share now falling below 80%. In September the market share of Vista-based computers being used to browse the net rose to 7.38%, up by over one percent from the previous month, with Windows XP’s market share falling by 1.16% to 79.32%. If Vista use continues to grow at this rate then it should account for over 10% of the market by December. Use of Mac operating systems also saw a rise, although it was less substantial than that of Vista, increasing from 6.15% to 6.61%.

Source: Net Applications via X-bit labs

 

Windows 10 Finally Surpasses Windows 7 in Global Market Share - StatCounter

Given the title "Windows 10 Finally Surpasses Windows 7 in Global Market Share", why is an influx of Chinese players in any way significant ?

 

Windows 10 Finally Surpasses Windows 7 in Global Market Share - StatCounter

According to web analytics company StatCounter, January 2018 was the year of the OS world's "flippening" - where Windows 10 finally surpassed the old, trusty Windows 7 in users' systems. According to the firm, Windows 10 in January was present in 42.78% of the worldwide desktop market share, just a hair above Windows 7's 41.86%. Windows 8.1 stands as the ugly duckling, with only 8.72 percent of the market still holding on to that OS.

Now, granted, one analytics company does not a trend make; there are a myriad of factors that might explain discrepancies between different companies' estimates. however, the fact remains that this is the first time Windows 10 is reported to have surpassed Windows 7 in terms of pure number of live systems. Also to take into account is that even in analytics firms that don't display these results, Windows 10 is clearly gaining traction against Windows 7 - one needs only look at the trendlines for both OSes on NetMarketShare, for instance, to see that there's a clear, positive momentum for WIndows 10 when compared to Windows 7. It's only a matter of time until all firms report the same, really. Still, this news comes years later than what Microsoft had hoped for with Windows 10; adoption of the OS hasn't been quite as predicted by the company. Still, Microsoft's ongoing work on the software, clear roadmap and support efforts seem to be paying off.