• Windows 10 usage falters, Edge goes nowhere at all

    Posted on November 1, 2016 at 07:51 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    October numbers are in, and they don’t bode well for Windows 10 or its browser.

    The latest NetMarketShare numbers show:

    • Windows 10 moved imperceptibly up from 22.53% in September to 22.59% in October
    • Windows 7 also nudged higher, from 48.27% to 48.38%
    • Edge went from 5.16% in September to 5.26% in October
    • IE decreased from 25.48% in September to 23.13% in October

    Firefox was the big winner, remarkably, going from 9.19% to 11.14%.

    Over on the StatCounter side of the fence:

    • Win10 slid up a tiny bit from 24.42% in September to 24.81% in October
    • Win7 went from 39.4% to 38.97%
    • Edge stayed flat from 3.01%  in September to 3.06% in October
    • IE lost a whole point from 10.73% to 9.73%

    You can interpret the numbers any way you like – and keep in mind that both NetMarketshare and StatCounter measure usage massaged in specific ways. But the takeaway is clear: Win10 and Edge certainly aren’t ringing any chimes.

    You just have to wonder how many Win10 machines were sold in October, and how that affects the usage number. If there were, say, 20 million Win10 machines sold in October, surely that would bump the Win10 share up a bit. Are there a lot of people reverting to Win 7 or 8.1 – or giving up on Windows entirely?

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