14 DAY TRIAL // Third-party data provided by market analyst firms shows that adoption of Windows 10 has slowed down a little in the last few months, but despite all of these, the new operating system is already running on 148 million PCs, according to the latest estimates.
And as CW notes, this means that Microsoft has already reached 15 percent of its 1 billion devices running Windows 10 goal, which the company says should be completed by 2017.
Figures for the month of November and collected by Net Applications show that Windows 10 was running on 9 percent of the world’s computers, up 1.06 percent from the month before. Adoption of the new operating system continues to increase these days, but at a slow pace, after booming from 0.39 percent in July to 5.21 percent in August.
Windows 10 is available free of charge to computers running Windows 7 and 8.1, but in the last few months, this offer doesn’t seem to be reason enough for some users to upgrade, who prefer to stick to their existing operating systems rather than to install Windows 10.
Windows 7 performance
What’s also surprising is that, despite the arrival of Windows 10, market performance of the good old Windows 7 doesn’t seem to be impacted in any way.
After previously declining from 56.53 percent in September to 55.71 percent in October, Windows 7 has managed to increase to 56.11 percent last month, which is living proof that, even though Windows 10 is up for grabs, its predecessors are still appealing to many users out there.
Windows 8.1 is the second in the charts with 11.15 percent, but its market share is expected to decrease in the coming months, as more people move to Windows 10. The case seems to be different with Windows 7, though, which continues to be installed on more than 1 in 2 PCs across the world.