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• Win10 market share up a bit, Win7 down a smidgen, and the browsers haven’t changed much at all

  Posted on January 3, 2020 at 08:34 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Along with my usual caveat that the statistics don’t mean much – the raw numbers are enormously skewed, the massaging methods run all over the place – it’s a bit comforting to know that the relative position of Win7 vs Win10 and Chrome browser vs the world didn’t change much in December.

  Netmarketshare says that Win10 went from 53.3% to 54.6% of desktop share between November and December. Their Win7 number went from 26.9% to 26.6% of desktop operating systems.

  Statcounter pegs Win10  at 64,6% to 65.4% of Windows market share. Win7 decreased just a bit from 27.5% in November to 26.8% in December.

  Browsers didn’t budge much at all, with Chrome staying around 67% to 69% and Edge bobbing around 5 to 7%, depending on whose numbers you prefer.

  All tolled, I figure there will be about 400 million PCs still on Win7 when it hits end of life in a couple of weeks. Ed Bott has an impressive analysis on ZDNet. He figures that by the middle of 2020, about 200 million PCs will be running Win7 or 8.1.

  My estimate’s much simpler – and more immediate. I figure there are twice as many Win10 machines as Win7 machines right now. MS says there are about 800 million Win10 machines, so there are about 400 million machines that’ll be on Win7 in a couple of weeks.

  Windows 10 market share, Win10 usage share

• Is Win10 1903 adoption growing quickly?

  Posted on July 29, 2019 at 06:30 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  I just saw the report on Paul Thurrott’s site (paywall), showing how Win10 version 1903 usage is increasing — now up to 11% of all Win10 usage — while version 1809 usage is staying put at around 30%. (Win10 1803 is around 54%.)

  I just wanted to toss in my usual caveat. The data from AdDuplex is very, very biased. As the company itself says, the numbers are “based on data collected from around 5,000 Windows Store apps running AdDuplex SDK v.2 (and higher).” Which means that you’re looking at numbers based on a tracking program installed on a small subset of Windows Store apps.

  Windows 10 Releases Win10 usage share

• Win10 usage share is slowly creeping upward (gerund used intentionally)

  Posted on August 2, 2018 at 07:36 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Gregg Keizer in Computerworld:

  According to California-based analytics vendor Net Applications, Windows 10 added nine-tenths of a percentage point in July, posting a user share of 36.6% of all personal computers and 41.4% of those running Windows… Windows 7 shed half a percentage point in July, slipping to 41.2% of all personal computers and 46.6% of those running Windows.

  Computerworld now predicts that Windows 7 will account for 35% of all active Windows editions when support ends in January 2020. At that time, Windows 10 should power nearly 59% of all Windows laptop and desktop PCs.

  Not just any version of Win10, mind you. Here’s the admonition I see in the Windows Store on my production Win10 1703 machine:

  

  That’s a tad overstated – support officially ends on Patch Tuesday, October 9, 2018, but there’s probably a week or two of leeway, waiting for the second official Win10 patch of the month.

  Come to think of it, if history is any indication, that may just be days. Oh well.

  Windows News Win10 usage share

• Keizer: Win10 usage increases, but Win7 is still holding its ground

  Posted on July 6, 2018 at 09:59 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  June was an interesting month for usage share. Per Gregg Keizer:

  According to California-based analytics vendor Net Applications, Windows 10 added a full percentage point in June, accounting for 35.7% of the user share of all personal computers and 40.4% of all those running Windows last month.

  Of course, the usage numbers don’t line up with Microsoft’s claim of “almost” 700 million  monthly active devices, but the MAD number includes Xboxes, phones, malfunctioning airport departure displays, and the odd refrigerator.

  Windows News Win10 usage share, Windows usage

• Win10 usage share stagnating

  Posted on July 2, 2018 at 15:05 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  I’m waiting for Gregg Keizer’s analysis in Computerworld, but no matter which usage share statistics you use, Win10 is stuck in the doldrums.

  Netmarketshare – June 2018

  Netmarketshare says Win7 went from 41.79% in May to 43.03% in June, while Win10 went from 34.74% to 34.92%.

  Statcounter says Win7 went from 39.44% in May to 39.63% in June. Win10 went from 47.21% in May to 46.75% in June.

  Netmarketshare: Win7 + 1.24%, Win10 + 0.18%

  Statcounter: Win7: + 0.19%, Win10 – 0.46%

  Of course month-to-month deltas are tiny, but it certainly doesn’t look to me like a landslide win for Win10.

  Windows News Win10 usage share, Windows usage

• April: Windows 10 share down, Windows 7 up

  Posted on May 3, 2018 at 20:00 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  At a time when Windows 7’s user share should be falling, and Windows 10 on the rise, Net Applications’ data for April shows the opposite.

  Gregg Keizer at Computerworld.

  Windows News Win10 usage share

• Usage Stats: Win10 up, Win7 up, XP holding; Chrome up, IE + Edge down

  Posted on June 1, 2016 at 08:50 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  What’s going on here?

  InfoWorld Woody on Windows

  Windows News Win10 usage share