Sylence Posted April 3, 2016 Share Posted April 3, 2016 It took only 8 months for Windows 10 to overtake Windows 7 in Steam share data, thus becoming the top operating system for those who are playing games using Valve’s gaming platform. Windows 7 loses first place in Steam OS charts Specifically, Windows 10 64-bit is now the leading choice for Steam gamers with a share of 36.97 percent, up no less than 2.96 percent in the last month. Windows 7 has been the top option for many years, but last month it dropped 1.22 percent to 32.99 percent and thus lost the first place. Windows 8.1 64-bit is also losing users, down 0.31 percent last month, so it’s now at 12.93 percent on Steam. Overall, Windows 7 still leads the charts thanks to the 6.97 percent share of the 32-bit, but version-wise, the 64-bit SKU of Windows 10 keeps growing and will continue to do so in the coming months too. No competition on Steam What’s also worth mentioning is that in March, Windows 10 was the only operating system that actually gained users on Steam (and Windows Vista 64-bit, but in this case the increase was of only 0.01 percent). Windows 10 64-bit gained 2.96 percent on Steam last month, while the 32-bit improved its share by 0.01 percent. All the other Windows desktop versions lost users during the month. As far as rivals are concerned, Windows seems to have no competition on Steam and the addition of DirectX 12 brings more people on Windows 10. Mac OS X dropped 0.08 percent to 3.32 percent while Linux lost 0.06 percent of its share to settle at 0.85 percent. Windows 10’s growth is very likely to continue in the coming months as Microsoft continues working on the operating system and, at the same time, also keeps pushing users to upgrade. The new OS is offered as a free upgrade to Windows 7 and 8.1 users as part of a promo that ends on July 29, 2016. Softpedia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christantoan Posted April 3, 2016 Share Posted April 3, 2016 Who the hell those 0.01% that upgrade to Vista? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sylence Posted April 3, 2016 Author Share Posted April 3, 2016 2 minutes ago, christantoan said: Who the hell those 0.01% that upgrade to Vista? I was exactly thinking about the same thing lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VileTouch Posted April 3, 2016 Share Posted April 3, 2016 4 minutes ago, christantoan said: Who the hell those 0.01% that upgrade to Vista? some hardware doesn't work in W7 and later. mostly printers, scanners, cameras, tv cards...even some touchpads. sometimes you hit one of those bumps and there's really no other choice than to reinstall vista from scratch. happened a couple times. bummer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sylence Posted April 3, 2016 Author Share Posted April 3, 2016 27 minutes ago, VileTouch said: some hardware doesn't work in W7 and later. mostly printers, scanners, cameras, tv cards...even some touchpads. sometimes you hit one of those bumps and there's really no other choice than to reinstall vista from scratch. happened a couple times. bummer. Yes of course. I just can't figure out why they also installed Steam on it (!) Spoiler I guess some of those who decided to role back from Windows 10 were going too fast that they skipped Windows 8.1 and 8 and 7 and landed on Vista Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vitorio Posted April 3, 2016 Share Posted April 3, 2016 46 minutes ago, VileTouch said: some hardware doesn't work in W7 and later. mostly printers, scanners, cameras, tv cards...even some touchpads. sometimes you hit one of those bumps and there's really no other choice than to reinstall vista from scratch. happened a couple times. bummer. That also is my reason not to upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10. In my other PC I already upgrade to Windows 10. So far no complaints for my decision. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VileTouch Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 15 hours ago, vitorio said: That also is my reason not to upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10. In my other PC I already upgrade to Windows 10. So far no complaints for my decision. however i have a laptop with W10 using a W7 intel display driver and it works great (but eh... yeah, that's an exception) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Israeli_Eagle Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 Gamers -> Noobs -> buy only ready (or mobile toys) & newest computers -> most often forced with Win10 together -> and love higher numbers anyway A simple logic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sylence Posted April 4, 2016 Author Share Posted April 4, 2016 1 minute ago, Israeli_Eagle said: Gamers -> Noobs -> buy only ready & newest computers -> most often forced with Win10 together -> and love higher numbers anyway A simple logic. That's not true, it might only apply to console games because they get everything ready and they usually don't care too much about things graphics quality, FPSs etc but PC gaming is a whole different story. you need to be in the situation to know what I mean. btw not everybody buy pre-assembled computers, most people tend to buy different hardware and assemble them themselves Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Israeli_Eagle Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 6 minutes ago, saeed_dc said: That's not true, it might only apply to console games because they get everything ready and they usually don't care too much about things graphics quality, FPSs etc but PC gaming is a whole different story. you need to be in the situation to know what I mean. btw not everybody buy pre-assembled computers, most people tend to buy different hardware and assemble them themselves I also never ever bought any pre-assembled PC in my life and will for sure never install Win10. So where came the (fake?) numbers from?!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
namek Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 I think those numbers will decrease in time. People like to try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sylence Posted April 4, 2016 Author Share Posted April 4, 2016 12 minutes ago, Israeli_Eagle said: I also never ever bought any pre-assembled PC in my life and will for sure never install Win10. So where came the (fake?) numbers from?!? if you want to call Steam's stats fake then I've got a long list here too to call fake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pc71520 Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 On 3/4/2016 at 1:52 PM, saeed_dc said: I guess some of those who decided to role back from Windows 10 were going too fast that they skipped Windows 8.1, 8 & 7 and landed on Vista. That was a good one... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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