The last we heard in November 2015, Microsoft’s Windows 10 commanded 7.94% of the market, and back in December, there were over 200 million devices with Windows 10 running on it. Now thanks to the latest figures from StatCounter (via Neowin), it looks like Windows 10 is pretty close to Windows 8.1 in market share.
According to the numbers, Windows 10 is currently commanding close to 10% of the operating system market, 9.96% to be exact. Windows 8.1, the previous generation release that has been out for years, is only sitting at 10.3%. With Windows 10 having been released for less than half a year, those numbers are very impressive.
We suppose it also helps that Windows 10 was a free upgrade for the first year for owners of genuine copies of older Windows platforms, and that they also made a lot of changes and improvements over the somewhat confusing Metro UI of Windows 8/8.1. It also seems that Windows 10 has long surpassed Apple’s combined OS X platforms of OS X 10.10 and 10.11.
Windows 7 is still currently the most popular platform of choice at 55.68%, but we reckon that will be changing in the near future as mainstream support for Windows 7 came to an end in January 2015, meaning that we can expect plenty of Windows 7 users upgrading to at least Windows 8.1 or even 10 if they wish to have their OS maintained and updated, at least for the foreseeable future.
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