Posted on 08/06/2015 12:11:57 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Microsoft's Windows 10's global usage share has quintupled since its July 29 launch, according to new data.
Usage share, a measure of how active Windows 10 users have been on the Internet, stood at 3.2% at the end of Wednesday, data from analytics vendor StatCounter showed. That was a five-fold increase over the 0.6% logged by Windows 10 a week before, the first day Microsoft started serving the upgrade to members of its Insiders testing program.
Wednesday's 3.2% was Windows 10's highest post-launch point so far, edging out the 3% milestone reached on Sunday, Aug. 2. In the following days, Windows 10's usage share dipped to 2.8% on Monday, then climbed to nearly 3% on Tuesday.
The up-and-down wasn't unusual: Consumer-oriented operating systems typically peak on weekends, then fall when people return to work, where they're often sitting in front of an older OS on their office devices.
And Windows 10 strongly slants towards consumers at this point. The free limited-time upgrade from Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 is being offered primarily to devices running a consumer version of the past two editions; the Enterprise SKU (stock-keeping unit) widely used by businesses is not eligible, and smaller shops running a Pro or Professional version are more likely to hold off upgrading.
Consumers are consistently the quickest to upgrade, a habit that has been responsible for the rapid uptake of Apple's OS X editions over the years. Less than a year after its fall 2014 launch, for example, OS X Yosemite, aka 10.10, powered 62% of all Macs, a share Windows 7 needed more than five years to reach.
Although Windows 10's usage share in the U.S. remained higher than the worldwide number -- yesterday it was 4.1% -- the OS has not yet returned to the high-water mark of Sunday
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Wow! Windows 10 is really taking off! The user base of Windows 8 users went up a little tiny bit, while Windows 10 went from 4 users to 16 users, a quadrupling! And when it goes up to 256 in the next week, it will be quadruple quadrupling!
I usually let all other folks try a computer product out for a few months before I jump in.
If Windows 10 is as good as many say it is by October, I’ll probably buy one computer with Windows 10. Not now.
So if windows 10. is so great, why can’I get it to install
Did the MS box come up and say it was ready for your pc?
I wonder how many of us are still using XP? I hate touch screens.
You don’t really have to use touch screens with Windows 10 if your computer does not have that feature.
If you think installation is a pain wait to try the rollback. Mine refused to do so for four days even with the help of online chat help. I’m back and I’m staying until the machines die. Then it will be Apple unless they screw-the-pooch.
I got the automated update yesterday and it took about an hour to install. Appears to be working fine.
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