If it's the first Monday of the month, then it's time for our monthly look at desktop operating system market share data from StatCounter and Netmarketshare. Windows XP market share declining less than Win 8.x or 7 SELECT THE DATA LINK YOU WANT TO READ About WINDOWS 10ĪLWAYS MORE DATA POSTED HERE ON WINDOWS (TEN) 10CLICK HERE What does Microsoft have to do to get people to make the switch? A big update to the new OS is due this month, will that make it more appealing? We shall find out in December.ĭO NOT TRY TO REGISTER ITS ONLY A INFO PAGE While Windows 10 is gaining share, it’s doing so at a very slow rate. It currently has 11.68 percent of the market. In October the ancient OS dropped 0.53 percentage points. XP users still show no signs of going anywhere. In total, Windows 8.x dropped a minuscule 0.10 percentage points in the month. Windows 8 was on 2.54 percent, and Windows 8.1 on 10.68 percent. In October, those figures didn't change much at all. In September, Windows 8 had 2.6 percent, and Windows 8.1 was on 10.72 percent. You might have expected Windows 8.x users to be the group keenest to switch to Windows 10, but actually they turn out to be surprisingly loyal to the tiled OS. Last month it started on 56.53 percent and dropped just 0.82 percentage points to 55.71 percent. Windows 7 remains the undisputed king of operating systems. In the previous month it grew by 1.42 percentage points, so you can see the rate slowly tailing off. In October, Windows 10 went from 6.63 percent to 7.94 percent, an increase of 1.31 percentage points. SEE ALSO: Windows 10's growth slows dramatically No wonder Microsoft has started using bullyboy tactics. Making the new OS free to upgraders, and advertising it heavily still doesn’t seem enough to get people to make the switch. However, it’s far from great news for Microsoft as Windows 10’s growth once again slowed. In October, Windows 10 gained usage share, while all other versions of Windows lost share. It’s that time of the month again when NetMarketShare releases its desktop operating system usage share figures and we get to see how well (or not) the various flavors of Microsoft’s operating system are doing. Windows 10's growth is very slow - Windows 7 and 8.x users reluctant to switch THE TITLE OF THREAD WILL ALL WAYS REFERENCE THE LAST POST

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