14 DAY TRIAL // As weird as it may sound, an operating system launched in 2009 managed to improve its market share last month more than a successor released in 2015, as not all users seem ready to upgrade.
Specifically, data provided by NetMarketShare for the month of June 2018 reveals that Windows 7 not only that remained the top choice on the desktop, but it also increased its share.
Windows 7 jumped from 41.79 percent in May to 43.03 percent in June, while Windows 10 improved only from 34.74 percent to 34.92 percent. This means that while Windows 7 gained 1.24 percent, Windows 10 barely recorded 0.18 percent growth, all during a month when adoption was supposed to improve thanks to the arrival of a new OS version.
Microsoft launched Windows 10 April 2018 Update on April 30 as a manual download and then on May 8 via Windows Update. In June, the company announced that April 2018 Update was the fastest-adopted version of Windows 10 since the debut of the OS in 2015, declaring it business-ready and making it broadly available for everyone.
The Windows 7 struggle
Windows 8.1 has also declined the last month to 4.89 percent, enough to allow macOS 10.13 to become the third most-used desktop operating system with 5.36 percent market share. Windows XP continues its decline as well, and this can only be good news for everyone, and is now running on just 3.96 percent of the desktop computers worldwide.
Windows XP no longer receives updates and security patches since April 2014 when it officially launched the end of support.
What’s more worrying, however, is that Windows 7 is also approaching EOL, and with the deadline set for January 2020, it still doesn’t look like the world is ready to give up on this OS. The next 18 months will be critical for Microsoft to convince users to upgrade, though it goes without saying that it’ll really be a struggle to do it.