Posted on 01/01/2019 7:47:26 PM PST by dayglored
More than three years after its release, Windows 10 has passed Windows 7 in market share. That means more desktop computers are now running Microsoft’s latest and greatest operating system than any other OS, according to Net Applications. The milestone is a nice way for Microsoft to end 2018, even though the company surely was hoping it wouldn’t take this long for Windows 10 to overtake Windows 7.
Windows 10 adoption started out very strong, but slowed quickly as the months progressed. Microsoft was aiming for 1 billion devices running Windows 10 in two to three years but backpedaled on that goal.
The operating system was installed on over 75 million PCs in its first four weeks and passed 110 million devices after 10 weeks, 200 million in under six months, 270 million after eight months, 300 million after nine months, 350 million after 11 months, 400 million after 14 months, 500 million after 21 months, and 600 million after 27 months. In September, after 37 months, it passed 700 million devices.
Windows 10 had 38.14 percent market share in November and gained 1.08 percentage points in December to hit 39.22 percent. Windows 10 market share growth has been slowed ever since the free upgrade expired in July 2016.
Windows 8 slipped 0.05 percentage points to 0.88 percent, while Windows 8.1 lost 0.14 points to 4.45 percent. Together, they owned 5.33 percent of the market at the end of December. The duo’s peak was 16.45 percent back in May 2015.
Windows 7 dropped 1.99 percentage points, falling from 38.89 percent to 36.90 percent. This is what made it possible for Windows 10 to become the “most popular desktop OS” in December. Windows 7 overtook Windows XP way back in September 2012, and passed the 60 percent market-share mark in June 2015.
Windows Vista doesn’t even register anymore (it fell below 1 percent market share at the start of 2017, the month of its 10-year anniversary). Windows XP somehow rebounded 0.31 points to 4.54 percent.
Windows overall slipped 0.83 percentage points to 86.20 percent in December. Year over year, Windows lost share, from 88.51 percent in December 2017.
Between November and December, macOS gained 0.94 points to 10.65 percent while Linux gained 0.70 points to 2.78 percent. Year over year, macOS was up from 9.02 percent share and Linux was up from 2.12 percent share.
Net Applications uses data captured from 160 million unique visitors each month by monitoring some 40,000 websites for its clients. This means it measures user market share.
If you prefer usage market share, you’ll want to get your data from StatCounter, which looks at 15 billion page views every month. The operating system figures for December are available here.
So they finally forcibly upgraded enough peoples pcs to make windows 10 numbers higher than windows 7.
Yeah - no.
Windows 10 is essentially windows 8 which is essentially windows 7 at the core - minus UI changes.
Windows 10 has had MORE attacks percentage-wise than windows 7.
They’re both equally culpable because ~80% of the code base is identical.
Start / Run / services.msc
Scroll down to Windows Update entry & double click on it
Stop
Disable
Apply
OK
This !
This too ! :-\
Given that it’s 2019 and we’re talking about 2010 windows not exactly a rousing level of support. More like an opportunity for somebody else come along and make windows obsolete.
Eff Microsoft
If that fool-proof method is to not ever log into any of your financial or other critical accounts or maintain any files with personal information on a Windows 7 PC without updates or an up-to-date virus scanner, sure.
“Eff Microsoft”
Exactly! That’s why we’ve had Macs since the Plus! Gates has been the world’s POS for his entire life! PCs to me are like old British Cars, you need to have a couple around just to make sure that one will work.
Good luck. You'll have a time finding drivers for the devices on a new laptop that for Windows 7. That's assuming the processor will even run Windows 7. I would check those things out before wiping the existing Windows 10 image. What model is the processor? 7th generation and later Intel CPUs won't run Win7.
Dayglored, I'm wondering why you need Classic Shell. I have W10 running on five machines and every one of them boots to a standard Windows desktop and has a start button just like earlier versions. I don't ever see tiles unless I want to.
Are you telling me that there is no private concern who can make security updates for Wind7 if Microsoft won’t make em? Sounds like an opportunity to make tons of money.
I don’t know what all the fuss is about. I have Win10 on all our machines (also 5) and there’s been no problems with any of them. Moving up from 7 to 10 was a big nothing.
As a Senior I.T. Exec in a very large enterprise I'll tell you why: migration costs.
It has nothing to do with "high value data" sitting on local Windows 7 systems because any such data resides on network devices that are regularly backed up.
The biggest problem that I see with moving from one version of Windows to another over the thirty plus years I've been in I.T. is legacy applications, among them Microsoft Office.
Users with macro's, vbscript and other Microsoft Office integration capabilities with back-end data often don't want to change or can't change because those capabilities are still in use while the original creator of them may be long gone from the organization. The people who end up using these capabilities, often for years don't know how they work, just that "they work" and they for some magical, unknown reason cannot change.
It's getting all this old crap to work with newer versions, tasks often performed by I.T. because users are too stupid to know how to do it, that takes the most time moving from one version of Windows to another.
I've seen this over and over again over thirty glorious years across various industries.
It's not an I.T. issue, a technology issue or a Windows issue, it's an end-user issue.
We’re in the middle of migrating about 60,000 users off Windows 7 to Windows 10. It’s happening at the Enterprise level but I would expect most of those move will happen this year since most will wait as long as they can.
This is best described as "The Oddball Concept of Computer Use" ...
Oh, man, I just ride in 'em. I don't know what makes 'em work.
I stuck with XP until I was dragged to win7, and will resist upgrading again. The new OS doesn’t really give me anything.
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