steven36 Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 There's good news and bad news for Microsoft because Windows 8.1 is slipping fast Windows 10 now has 5.95 per cent of the desktop operating systems market, according to the folks at StatCounter.There's good news and bad news in that result,.The good is that StatCounter has revised its figure for Windows 10 market share in the week of August 10 to 16. Last week, the outfit said Redmond's latest had won 4.95 per cent of the market. It's now adjusted that number to 5.39 per cent, meaning that in Windows 10's second full week on the market it added 42.59 per cent market share.The bad news is that for the week August 16 to 23, StatCounter has Windows 10 at 5.95 per cent. Or just 10.39 per cent growth over the previous week.Windows 8.1 took the hit: its share went from 14.39 per cent to 13.84 per cent. Windows 7 grew a little, from 52.91 per cent to 53.3 per cent.Results like that give us a decent reason to take take StatCounter's data with a pinch of salt, because while the outfit has tracking codes embedded in some three million websites and that's a lovely big sample, it does produce some odd wobbles and jumps. While Windows 10's growth looks to have slowed, winning nearly six per cent of a global market in a month is quite a feat. Microsoft's problem, however, is that PCs are no longer the main game. When Redmond controlled 90 per cent or more of the desktop market it controlled 90 per cent of just about all connected computing devices. These days there are billions of smartphones out there, most running Android or iOS. StatCounter says Windows phone has 2.17 per cent market share. The forthcoming launch of Windows 10 for mobile devices, which Redmond hopes will go well once the OS runs Android apps, will offer another measure of whether the new operating system is a success. Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WALLONN7 Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 Us => :showoff: ... :frusty: <= Microsoft Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dezsez Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 I reckon Windows 7 will remain the most popular for a numbers of years yet because there is really nothing radically new with Win 10,Except the Aggro :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D1v1n3D Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 well the boot sequence the secure boot bios crap and the new CPU architectures can be utilized by win 10 but the spying is now on all Microsoft OS's so best thing is wait for Steam OS to release Vulkan based on AMD Mantle to unlock tons of power its more powerful then mantle or dx12 in beta so lets see final version. Also latest version of Wine for Linux just unlocked features of DX11 in beta but its a start and soon dx12 so there will be no point to have windows after next year PERIOD..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reefa Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 Only because most noobs where malwared into it.. :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karlston Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 Now that all the people who upgraded because the number 10 is bigger than the numbers 7 and 8 and 8.1, AKA the mindless "it's newer so it HAS TO BE better", we'll see how many people with brains install it despite all its problems with privacy, bandwidth sucking, forced updates, pc-hosing updates, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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