• Countdown to End7: Win10 nudges Win7 out of first place, becomes most-used internet platform by a smidgen

    Posted on January 2, 2019 at 07:58 CST by • Comment in the Forums

    Ya’ll know that I don’t trust the statistics from any of the major “network usage” measurement companies. They all rely on arbitrary definitions, sampling methods and/or fudging (er, statistical adjustment) that would make an American pollster blush. Still, if you ignore the two-decimal-place precision in the reported numbers, there’s an obvious and inevitable move from Win7 to Win10.

    Duh.

    Net Applications reports that in December, Win10 usage share hit 45.5% of all PCs running Windows, while Win7 stood at 42.8%. If you include all of the Netmarketshare-defined “desktop/laptop” computers (screenshot), Win10 was at 39.2%, Win7 at 36.9%, with the most stable version of Windows (8.1) at 4.45% and macOS X 10.13 at 2.84%.

    Gregg Keizer has a great summary in his Computerworld article:

    Nearly three and a half years after its release, Windows 10 last month surpassed its enterprise predecessor, Windows 7, as the most popular operating system on the planet…

    When Windows 7’s support ends, it should be powering slightly more than 36% of all Windows PCs, while Windows 10 will be running 55%.

    By comparison, Windows XP accounted for 29% of all Windows PCs when it dropped off the support list.

    Countdown to End7: 377 days.

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