Windows 10 has gained five percent of the market share faster than we’ve seen with any other operating system, jumping to over five percent in one month. It calculates that Windows 10 has a 6.1 percent share of the desktop and tablet market, again growing at the expense of Windows 8 and Windows 7. This means that Windows 10 owns more market share than Windows 8 and Vista combined.
This time, Windows 10 isn’t performing so well, as Windows 7 still has a surprisingly big market share, with 57.72 percent of the PCs in the country still running this OS version.
Netmarketshare is particularly unhelpful because it didn’t record Windows 10 data for August.
We’re guessing most of the rise in “other” was Windows 10, since it seems unlikely that Linux has suddenly become more than statistical noise in desktop data.
This is up more than 13 percent in the last month alone.
There are several figures to consider: Adoption by gamers, a power-user subset; usage share, as measured by StatCounter; and market share from NetMarketShare.
StatCounter has Windows 10 at 5.38 per cent for the month, but 6.69 per cent for the week ending August 30th.
This is the continent where Microsoft invested billions of dollars to make Windows 10 successful, but Windows 7 continues to lead the charts with 46.19 percent.
The fine folks over at StatCounter released data regarding Windows 10’s performance in the market during its first full month, August.
So which continent uses Windows 10 the most? In the first few days after the July 29 debut, just over 3 percent were Windows 10 users.
Australia is one of the markets where Windows 10 already shows signs of success, but there’s still a very long road ahead until it manages to overtake Windows 7. The official download numbers from Microsoft revealed late last month are that more than 75 million devices are now running Windows 10. Windows 8 slipped 0.21 percentage points to 2.56 percent, while Windows 8.1 fell 1.71 points to 11.39 percent. The duo never even passed the 20 percent market share mark (they peaked at 16.45 percent in May), and with Windows 10 now available, they never will.
“Piracy has a strong impact on Windows 10 adoption rate”.