14 DAY TRIAL // While Microsoft’s Windows 10 is growing at a slower pace worldwide, adoption on Valve’s Steam gaming performance is improving at full speed and last month’s figures reveal that the operating system was still powering 50 percent of the PCs despite a slight decline.
The 64-bit version of Windows 10 is currently running on 50.08 percent of the systems where Steam is also installed, but last month it recorded a 0.07 percent decline. The 32-bit flavor, on the other hand, is now at 0.99 percent, down 0.06 percent from the previous month, but this means that Windows 10 is still running on more than 1 in 2 PCs with Steam.
The runner-up is Windows 7, which has a Steam share of 30.86 percent for the 64-bit version and 4.56 percent for the 32-bit sibling. The first posted a small increase of 0.89 percent, most likely as some Windows 10 users decided to downgrade.
Windows 8.1 64-bit is third in the charts with 7.41 percent and a drop of 0.31 percent, and there’s no way it’ll ever recover in the next months.
The weird case of the Creators Update
Overall, Windows is up 0.08 percent, so it’s now running on 96.13 percent of the systems where Steam users installed their games, while OS X is only at 2.99 percent, down 0.12 percent. Linux is even far behind with only 0.76 percent, a decline of 0.01 percent from the previous month.
One thing that is worth mentioning is that last month, Windows 10 actually lost some share points, despite the fact that Microsoft rolled out the Creators Update on April 5 as a manual download and on April 11 via Windows Update. Many users already installed the Creators Update, so the decline in Steam share is surprising to say the least.
On the other hand, Windows 10 has already reached the 50 percent milestone, so as long as it doesn’t fall below it, Microsoft has every reason to be pleased with its performance.