Windows 10: Windows 10 sees significant growth as Windows 7 tumbles

The latest market share figures show that Windows 10 has seen a significant uptake in users last month. Windows 10 is taking a commanding lead and Windows 7 keeps going down rapidly.

In July 2019 market share report, Windows 10 increased its share from 45.79% to 48.86%, while the figures give Windows 7 a 31.83% share of the pie. Windows 8.1 also increased its share in July as it jumped from 4.51% to 5.29%. If Windows 8.1 gains more users, it could surpass Mac OS X 10.14.

Some users are still on Windows XP, but the decades-old operating system has also dropped in the latest figures. The market share currently sits at 1.68% and it recorded a drop of 0.13%.


Data Courtesy: Netmarketshare

Windows 7 support ends in 6 months

Windows 7 is still far from a dead operating system and it holds a market share of 31%.

Microsoft will officially end support for Windows 7 on January 14, 2020. The operating system will stop receiving updates after this date, but large businesses can pay Microsoft to receive premium support.

Gaming market share


Data Courtesy: Valve Steam platform

According to new data, Windows 10 continues to be the number one choice for gamers on Valve’s Steam platform and it also keeps growing every month. Last month, Windows 10 registered a growth of 3.73% and now it holds a market share of 71.57% for the 64-bit version.

Windows 7 64-bit is the runner-up with just 20.40% of the share and it has declined by 3.03% as more users upgraded to Windows 10 or replaced their old machines.

Browser market share


Data Courtesy: Netmarketshare

The browser user share largely remains. Google Chrome continues to be the most used browser on desktop and it jumped to 68.60% from 66.29%. The market share of classic Edge is now 5.80% versus 6.03% the previous month.

It’s worth noting that the market share of Chromium-based Edge is not available yet and the browser should register a growth when Microsoft launches stable branches of the new Edge.

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Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.

 

Installing Windows 10 using Windows 7 key

Nope, you need to install Windows 10 first and make sure the Windows 7 key is transferred to your Windows account after you've installed Windows 10 (not quite sure how that works). I missed the last step and I could not activate Windows 10 after a re-install... Microsoft seem to have done everything they can to make it a PITA. Also, it's technically too late to do this now anyhow, as the upgrade offer has expired. But KMSPico works quite well...

As for getting rid of Windows, delete the Windows folder.

 

Windows 10 Snipping Tool on Windows 7

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As far as getting the windows 10 version into windows7. I know there was a way to get the old winpaint, so maybe there's a way to get the snipping tool into 10, I don't know.

im curious if i could compress, and upload the application to this post? 7zip doesnt seem to be allowed