14 DAY TRIAL // Windows 10 is already the world’s number one desktop operating system, with Windows 7 remaining the runner-up, but the market share on Valve’s Steam gaming platform keeps growing at an impressive pace.
Windows 10 has surpassed the 70 percent market share milestone on Steam in June 2019 after posting an increase of no less than 3.08 percent during the month.
This means Windows 10 is now running on 70.92 percent of the devices where Steam is installed, also pushing the overall share of Windows to 96.49 percent. The 64-bit version of Windows 7 is the second most popular choice on Steam with 21.34 percent, down 2.09 percent from the previous month. Windows XP has finally disappeared from the stats, as the majority of gamers already upgraded to supported versions of Windows.
Windows rivals going down
Both Linux and macOS declined during the month, which does nothing more than show not only that Windows remains the preferred gaming platform, but also that Windows 10 itself is the dominant leader of the gaming industry on the PC.
macOS dropped 0.51 percent to record a market share of 2.75 percent, while Linux went down 0.08 percent for a June 2019 Steam share of 0.76 percent. The top Linux distro used for gaming is Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS 64-bit, the Valve data shows. In the Apple ecosystem, macOS 10.14.5 is the leading version.
These numbers can only be good news for Microsoft, especially as the company is pushing hard for Windows 10 to reach the 1 trillion device target that it announced back in 2015.
While the software giant has revised this goal in the meantime, admitting that it could take more time to install Windows 10 on 1 billion devices, the most recent statistics revealed that the OS was already running on approximately 800 million devices.