14 DAY TRIAL // A new research conducted by Context reveals that Windows 10 is the number one Windows version installed on new PCs sold last month, as more European business customers choose Microsoft’s latest operating system versus its predecessors.
This can only be good news for Microsoft, especially because the focus is no longer on consumers when it comes to boosting Windows 10 adoption figures, and with new PC sales still struggling, it’s quite important for the latest Windows version to dominate the market.
According to Context data (via ComputerWeekly), Windows 10 Pro accounted for no less than 57 percent of all Windows PCs sold in January, which represents a 9 percent increase over the figures achieved in December.
These figures help predict that Windows 10 sales are likely to increase in the coming months, especially because January figures managed to exceed those in December, even though it’s the first month of the year and coming after the holiday season.
“Now eighteen months into its life cycle, this latest rise has brought adoption rates for Windows 10 Pro closer to those reached by its most popular predecessor after a similar time span,” Marie-Christine Pygott, senior analyst at Context, explained.
Windows 10 powering more than 50 percent of business PCs in most countries
In the United Kingdom, no less than 69 percent of the new business PCs sold in January were running Windows 10, while in Italy, Microsoft’s new operating system achieved 61 percent. Windows 10 exceeded 50 percent in several other markets, such as Spain, Switzerland, Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, and Poland, but fell below this threshold in Germany and Sweden.
Windows 10 adoption is expected to continue growing in the coming months, especially because more enterprises are projected to complete the upgrade, so sales of new PCs powered by the OS are also likely to increase.
Microsoft previously had a target of bringing Windows 10 on 1 billion devices by the end of FY2017, but the firm more recently admitted that it could miss this goal because of upgrade cadence slowing down in the last quarters.