14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft is now refining Windows 10 ahead of the big launch on July 29, and in the meantime, more users download and install the technical preview builds that already work extremely well on most PCs out there.
And living proof is new data offered by Valve for its Steam gaming platform, which reveals that more users switched to Windows 10 last month, while the majority of Windows versions lost users.
In fact, Windows 8.1 64-bit and Windows 10 are the only Windows versions that scored an increase in the number of users on Steam last month, with the rest, including the leader Windows 7, in both 32- and 64-bit versions, posting a decline during the period.
Windows continues to dominate the Steam platform with an overall share of 95.79 percent, with Windows 7 64-bit still the clear leader with a share of 46.75 percent (down 0.18 percent from the month before). Windows 8.1 64-bit is second with 30.15 percent (up 0.68 percent), followed by Windows 7 with 9.97 percent and Windows 8 64-bit with 3.23 percent.
Windows 10’s Steam share
Windows 10 is, obviously, far behind, but the 64-bit version is now installed on 0.84 percent of the computers running Steam, an increase of 0.11 percent from April 2015.
And in case you think that Windows 10’s Steam share is not at all that impressive, it is. Windows 10 alone has nearly the same Steam share as Linux, for example, which is now installed on 0.88 percent of the computers used for playing games on Valve’s platform.
And these figures are expected to grow significantly in the coming months, as Microsoft is getting ready to introduce the final version of Windows 10 and thus offer a much more reliable and stable operating system that can be used not only for working but also for gaming.
Windows 10 will debut on July 29 and will become available to the majority of users during the same day.