Windows 7 Users Finally Making the Move to Windows 10, New Stats Show

[Batu69]

For Microsoft, this is the best Christmas gift ever

 

Preliminary market share stats for desktop OSes in Europe

 

Preliminary market share stats for desktop OSes in North America

 

Upgrading Windows 7 users to Windows 10 has been Microsoft’s top priority ever since it launched the new operating system for two different reasons.

First, Windows 7 is currently the world’s number one desktop operating system, so convincing the majority of users to make the switch is always the more important thing to do.

But second, getting people off Windows 7 was critical because Redmond wants to avoid another Windows XP moment in 2020 when support for this OS version is coming to an end, and the company expects many users to simply refuse to give up on it, just as it happened in April 2014 with XP.

Fortunately, new preliminary stats for the month of December show that Microsoft’s strategy is rapidly paying off.

Windows 7 down, Windows 10 up

Before anything, note that these are just early figures for December, so they could change before the end of the month. But anyway, they are a clear indication that Windows 7 has finally started losing users in both Europe and North America.

Windows 7 previously had a market share above 50 percent, and the arrival of Windows 10 made almost no difference in the first months after the launch.

And yet, new data provided by StatCounter shows that, in Europe, Windows 7 has dropped to no less than 44.18 percent, while Windows 10 has already jumped on the second position with 15.34 percent. The difference between the two is still huge, but don’t forget that we’re discussing an operating system launched five months ago versus one that got to see daylight in 2009.

In North America, Windows 7 has lost even more users, but not necessarily thanks to Windows 10. Windows 7 is currently at 41.6 percent in this region, but Windows 10 is not the one on the second place. Mac OS X is the runner-up with 18.21 percent, as Apple has a bigger market share in this side of the world. Windows 10 is, however, next with 12.44 percent.

At first glance, Windows 10 still has a long way to go to become a powerful rival to Windows 7, but if Microsoft manages to accomplish its plan to bring the new OS on 1 billion devices by 2017, these rankings could change in about 12 months. Windows 10 will undoubtedly continue its growth while Windows 7 will still go down every month, so it’s probably just a matter of time until a switch of places happens. The big question is when this will happen.

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[steven36]

Instead  of telling about this continent or that one why don't they just tell  what is going on world wide witch  windows 10 is still a little behind windows 8.1  in  North America more people use mac than MS windows 8.1 or windows 10  but worldwide they don't. they got like another half a year left tell windows 10  is cost  any money right now people are buying new computers for Christmas . Lets see if it can keep steadily gaining after the holidays. 6.4 %  worldwide is not very many users ..

 

[TheAslan]

Never!!!!!!!

[vibranium]

I'll believe those statistics, the minute they compile and report the category "those who upgrade to Win10 and roll back to Win7 / 8"

[Maxhedroom]

The phrase 'Pry from my cold, dead hands' comes to mind.

[zomi]

So many are just updating by mistake

then wondering what has happened.

Then having to pay to go back to the stable environment of windows 7

 

[Holmes]

There not making the move to windows ten some are some are not I agree show the amount of users that have rolled back lawls.