Thursday, February 1st 2018
Windows 10 Finally Surpasses Windows 7 in Global Market Share - StatCounter
According to web analytics company StatCounter, January 2018 was the year of the OS world's "flippening" - where Windows 10 finally surpassed the old, trusty Windows 7 in users' systems. According to the firm, Windows 10 in January was present in 42.78% of the worldwide desktop market share, just a hair above Windows 7's 41.86%. Windows 8.1 stands as the ugly duckling, with only 8.72 percent of the market still holding on to that OS.
Now, granted, one analytics company does not a trend make; there are a myriad of factors that might explain discrepancies between different companies' estimates. however, the fact remains that this is the first time Windows 10 is reported to have surpassed Windows 7 in terms of pure number of live systems. Also to take into account is that even in analytics firms that don't display these results, Windows 10 is clearly gaining traction against Windows 7 - one needs only look at the trendlines for both OSes on NetMarketShare, for instance, to see that there's a clear, positive momentum for WIndows 10 when compared to Windows 7. It's only a matter of time until all firms report the same, really. Still, this news comes years later than what Microsoft had hoped for with Windows 10; adoption of the OS hasn't been quite as predicted by the company. Still, Microsoft's ongoing work on the software, clear roadmap and support efforts seem to be paying off.
Sources:
Stat Counter, NetMarketShare, via TechSpot
Now, granted, one analytics company does not a trend make; there are a myriad of factors that might explain discrepancies between different companies' estimates. however, the fact remains that this is the first time Windows 10 is reported to have surpassed Windows 7 in terms of pure number of live systems. Also to take into account is that even in analytics firms that don't display these results, Windows 10 is clearly gaining traction against Windows 7 - one needs only look at the trendlines for both OSes on NetMarketShare, for instance, to see that there's a clear, positive momentum for WIndows 10 when compared to Windows 7. It's only a matter of time until all firms report the same, really. Still, this news comes years later than what Microsoft had hoped for with Windows 10; adoption of the OS hasn't been quite as predicted by the company. Still, Microsoft's ongoing work on the software, clear roadmap and support efforts seem to be paying off.
62 Comments on Windows 10 Finally Surpasses Windows 7 in Global Market Share - StatCounter
Also being someone who has spent the last few weeks using a MacBook I can thoroughly say that windows 10 is 28448 Times better. The thing won't even allow for multiple windows being ran side by side at once, and people say it's"better" than windows :shadedshu:
Meanwhile just now on Steam;
Steam Hardware & Software Survey
"OS Version"
Windows 7 64 bit - 68.80%
Windows 10 64 bit - 24.77%
Windows 8.1 64 bit - 2.44%
I like Windows 10 either way.
And same feelings for Mac OS Since W7, i have iMac from 2010 because i need to know how it works to help people and do my job. The only reason for Mac, it's own professional audio/video software works about 3-4x times faster than "industry standart" Adobe, maybe some optimization (cheating) with quality level.
This was Windows 10 on Steam several months ago: www.neowin.net/news/windows-10-user-base-on-steam-climbs-to-all-time-high-of-5123
Then PUBG began its rise and it started to change: www.game-debate.com/news/23834/windows-7-made-huge-market-share-gains-over-windows-10-in-september-2017-according-to-steam
Edit: To further prove the point, the preferred language on Steam is now almost 64% Simplified Chinese: store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/
Percentual Statistics are not suppose to be taken literally.There are so many annoyances in it that it took me 3 days of tweaking the crap out of it to get something workable out, and it still doesn't feel as good, yes it's faster, smoother, but I still find myself hindered in multitasking performance.
By the way that 3 days is really a hugely relative number, 3 days for me with all the +10 year experience with Windows and considering I've tested Win10 2 times before and had a similar run half a year ago on a HDD but I scrapped it compeltely and reinstalled/retweaked fresh on a SSD, and I have stacks of notes and a ton of tweaks and registry setting names/locations I already know on my own, so that 3 days is quite a lot, it's full 16 hour work day tweaking, it's not sitting around half the time.
I still love my windows 7.But if I were to build a new PC I would give windows 10 a go.
I like Windows 10 otherwise. I even like the general interface. Just not that start menu. It's cool on a Surface or something, but I'd prefer this classic feel on my desktop.
edit: This is really nice! Why the hell didn't they just do this themselves...
I can deal with the standard menu, but this is so much more aesthetically "neutral" so to speak. Not sure how to put it. I still mostly use classic Win API apps, and that other interface doesn't always mesh well with it. But this is just aesthetics. It's not all that important, I guess.
Anyways windows 10 task manager is awesome compared to windows 7 and being someone who uses multiple monitors the task bar being on both is a huge plus.
edit: There's even more use for this now because Win Phone is dead and tablets just aren't the huge market they thought it'd be. Time to rethink what their actual audience is.
Funnily, Apple is about to make the same mistake. There's talk of them of unifying iOS and MacOS somehow. It'll probably create the same headache it did on Windows, with the "app store" and standard application divide. As it stands now, Mac OS is still a better desktop OS than Windows 10... because it's know it's just a desktop OS.
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