14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft has recently bragged about Windows 10 adoption, claiming that its new operating system is running on 200 million devices, so it’s already growing at a very decent pace.
Data provided by the US government via analytics.usa.gov shows that Windows 10 is indeed growing, but rather slowly, gaining ground quite hardly when compared to all the other platforms, both desktop and mobile, available to Internet users.
After it counted visits over the past 90 days, the service says that Windows was used by 55.9 percent of those who ended up on a US government website while iOS took the second place with 17.2 percent. Note that this is the mobile operating system developed by Apple, as Mac OS X, the desktop platform, is counted separately with 9.1 percent.
Windows 10 and its predecessors
But as far as Windows alone is concerned, Windows 7 was the number one version with 35.9 percent, followed by Windows 8.1 with 8.1 percent. This means that Windows 10 still has a hard time overtaking its predecessor.
On the bright side, Windows 10 is already at 7.6 percent, and Windows XP is very far behind with just 2.1 percent. Windows 8, whose support ends this week, was powering 0.5 percent of the devices used to access government websites in the last three months.
In terms of browsers, Google’s Chrome is the king with 41.7 percent, followed by Internet Explorer with 22 percent. Fortunately, Internet Explorer 11 is the leading version with 14.6 percent while 9.0 is second with 2.6 percent. All Internet Explorer versions except for 11 will be discontinued this week, so users need to either update to the latest release or move to a different browser.
Safari is third with 20.5 percent, but that’s not at all unexpected, given the fact that both iOS and Mac OS X are doing so well while Mozilla Firefox is really far behind with just 9.3 percent.