Windows 10: big jump in usage share in August 2015

September 2, 2015

Windows 10 has been out for little over a month;

reason enough to find out how the operating system did usage share wise.

NetMarketShare's published desktop operating system usage share statistics for August 2015

indicate that Microsoft's new operating system Windows 10 jumped straight to position four

of the most used operating system from not being in the top 10 a month earlier.

It surpassed Linux, all Mac OS X editions as well as Windows Vista and Windows 8 in that single month.

According to NetMarketShare's data, it is holding a usage share of 5.21% currently.

The three operating system versions in front of it are Windows 8.1 with 11.39%,

Windows XP with 12.14% and Windows 7 with its dominating 57.67%.

Windows 10 rose by 4.28% compared to the month before while both Windows 8.1

and Windows 7 lost usage share (1.72% and 3.06% respectively).

Windows XP interestingly enough gained 0.42% but that is

more of an indicator that these stats are not set in stone and can fluctuate quite

a bit depending on certain factors.

(ghacks)

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