14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft claims Windows 10 adoption is growing at a really fast pace, outclassing its predecessors, including Windows 7, which is generally referred to as the most successful OS version ever released by the company.
But new statistics that Redmond itself provides show that Windows 7 isn’t losing users at such an alarming rate, and while Windows 10 indeed grows, Windows 8.1 seems to be the only big loser.
The Windows trends (via ghacks) shared by Microsoft reveals that, in November 2015, Windows 7 was running on 63 percent of the PCs and tablets around the world while Windows 10 reached 16 percent. Windows 7 experienced a 2 percent drop from the month before, when it had a share of 65 percent, but it’s at the same level as in August 2015 (the first full month of Windows 10 on the market).
Windows 8.1 keeps going down
Windows 10 is growing, there’s no doubt about it, and in November, it posted an increase of 2 percent, according to Microsoft’s figures. But the OS that’s going down these days is Windows 8.1, which dropped gradually from 26 percent in July (the month when Windows 10 came to be) to 17 percent in October before recovering one percent the next month.
As far as gamers are concerned, Windows 10 is already at 20 percent while Windows 7 declined a little bit more and is running on only 62 percent of the PCs used for playing games. Windows 8.1 dropped even more in this department and is now at 14 percent, down from 25 percent in July.
Certainly, Windows 10 adoption is on the rise, but these figures show that Microsoft needs to continue its push for upgrades, especially because the free Windows 10 offer expires in July this year. Redmond has a goal of bringing Windows 10 on 1 billion devices by 2017, so it’ll be interesting to see how the company manages to accomplish this mission.