A year and a
half after its release, Windows 10 has passed 25 percent market share. That
means one in four computers are now running the latest and greatest operating
system from Microsoft, according to Net
Applications.
Windows 10
was installed on over
75 million PCs in its first four weeks, passed 110
million devices after 10 weeks, 200
million in under six months, 270
million after eight months, 300
million after nine months, 350
million after 11 months, and 400
million after 14 months. Microsoft was aiming for 1
billion devices running Windows 10 “in two to three years,” but backpedaled
on that goal.
Windows 10
had 24.36 percent market share in December and gained 0.94 percentage points in
January to hit 25.30 percent. Windows 10 market share growth slowed over the
second half of 2016 because the free
upgrade expired.
Windows 8
slipped 0.04 percentage points to 1.62 percent, while Windows 8.1 stayed flat
at 6.90 percent. Together, they owned 8.52 percent of the market at the end of
January. The duo’s peak was 16.45 percent back in May 2015.
Windows 7
ended 2016 at 48.34 percent, but has fallen to 47.20 percent as of January.
Windows 10’s slice of the pie is thus now slightly more than half of Windows
7’s, which is likely keep its title of “most popular OS” for a long time.
Windows 7 overtook
Windows XP way back in September 2012, and passed
the 60 percent market-share mark in June 2015.
Windows
Vista dropped 0.22 points to 0.84 percent, falling below the 1 percent market
share mark in the month of its 10-year anniversary. Windows XP somehow
rebounded 0.10 points to 9.17 percent as its resilience continues to annoy
Microsoft and the general tech community.
Overall,
Windows slipped 0.31 percentage points to 91.41 percent in January. Mac OS X
gained 0.25 points to 6.32 percent and Linux gained 0.06 points to 2.27
percent.
Net
Applications uses data captured from 160 million unique visitors each month by
monitoring some 40,000 websites for its clients. This means it measures user
market share.
If you
prefer usage market share, you’ll want to get your data from StatCounter, which looks at 15 billion
page views every month. The operating system figures for January are available here.
Source:Venturebeat
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