Windows 10 now rules the weekend, taking over from Windows 7

[steven36]

Redmond's latest is climbing nicely, mostly at Windows 7's expense

 

 

Windows 10's market share continues to grow a point or two a month, but it's also cracked the milestone of being the most-used version of Windows on weekends.

 

That's The Register's conclusion after downloading the US Government Analytics service's latest 90-day dump recording over a billion visits to US government web sites. That's as big a sample as we can find anywhere, so we figure it's at least as newsworthy as the other two sources we track for market share, NetMarketshare and Statcounter.

 

But first, the weekend analysis.

 

We've remarked in the past that operating system usage rates change during the week. A mature OS like Windows 7 will do well Monday to Friday because business has embraced it. A new OS like Windows 10 will do okay during the working week, but will initially do rather better on weekends because consumers are faster to adopt new code than businesses.

 

Windows 10 has displayed that pattern of adoption and continues to do so. But over the last 90 days it has also won more market share over the weekend than Windows 7. Here's the latest graph we've cooked up showing the trend.

 

 

See how the blue Windows 10 columns now top the red Windows 7 columns two days each week? And see how Windows 10 is pulling away from its predecessor? This is a graph that will make Microsoft smile. Although of course it would also like a graph in which Windows 10 is killing it every day of the week.

 

The new OS, however, growing nicely.

 

Here's how things look over the last few months:

 

 

 

As you can see, there's gentle decline for Windows 7, gentle increases for Windows 10 and a slide into irrelevance for the rightly-unloved Windows 8.x. There's still the small matter of Windows 10 falling a long way short of its target for a billion installs, and Android devices outselling Windows devices by nearly four to one. But Windows 10 is clearly on the rise and more of us will soon be in the OS-as-a-service world, just where Redmond wants us to be.

 

 

Source:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/02/windows_10_now_rules_the_weekend_taking_over_from_windows_7/

 

[steven36]

Windows 10 growth slowdown has bright side

 

Downturn in August smaller than expected; may signal start of enterprise migrations

 

Although Windows 10's growth slowed in August, the one-year-old operating system didn't slam on the brakes as expected, according to data from multiple analytics sources.

The smaller-than-anticipated slowdown may signal the start of enterprise deployments, a move that would vindicate Microsoft's efforts to nudge businesses to adopt the OS faster than they had earlier editions.

 

According to U.S.-based metrics vendor Net Applications, Windows 10 gained 1.9 percentage points of user share during August, putting its mark at 23% of all personal computers for the month.

Windows 10 powered 25.4% of all machines running Windows: The difference between the user share of all PCs and only those running Windows stemmed from the fact that Windows powered 90.5% of all personal computers, not 100%.

 

August's 8% month-over-month growth rate was the lowest since Windows 10's mid-2015 launch, but it was not as dire a dip as other sources hinted around the middle of August. Last month's sequential increase was only slightly behind June's 9.8% and March's 10.1%.

Others analytics firms showed similar results.

 

Ireland's StatCounter, for example, pegged Windows 10's usage share -- more a measure of activity than of individual users and their devices -- at 24.5% for August, a 1-point gain that represented a 4% month-over-month increase.

 

Like Net Applications' numbers, StatCounter's portrayed a slowdown of Windows 10 growth, but one at odds with earlier projections by Computerworld. Where those mid-August forecasts put Windows 10's increase at just a third of July's and a fourth of Junes, in reality 10's gain was better than half of July's and more than a third of June's.

 

Expectations of a slowing of Windows 10 uptake were based on the demise of the year-long free upgrade offer, which Microsoft extended to all consumers with Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 machines, as well as to many -- but not all -- businesses. The offer expired July 29, at which point Microsoft began charging all customers for Windows 10 upgrades.

 

Source:

http://www.computerworld.com/article/3115166/microsoft-windows/windows-10-growth-slowdown-has-bright-side.html

 

 

[straycat19]

3 hours ago, steven36 said:

That's The Register's conclusion after downloading the US Government Analytics service's latest 90-day dump recording over a billion visits to US government web sites. That's as big a sample as we can find anywhere, so we figure it's at least as newsworthy as the other two sources we track for market share, NetMarketshare and Statcounter.

 

Lies, damn lies, and statistics.  Hmmm, could it be so many Windows 10 visits were recorded because the browser kept crashing and the system kept locking up so they had to keep coming back, or is it that Windows 7 users just don't visit government sites.  Everybody is bending over backwards to prove how successful Windows 10 is when they are really so full of shit their eyes have turned brown.  This isn't even news anymore.  The fact is Windows 10 only hit about 30% of its goal and even those numbers have proved to be inflated because they only count installs, oem sales, and other OS shipments to retailers, etc and don't take into account rollbacks and Windows 10 packages sitting in warehouses and on shelves, getting dusty.

[steven36]

29 minutes ago, straycat19 said:

 

Lies, damn lies, and statistics.  Hmmm, could it be so many Windows 10 visits were recorded because the browser kept crashing and the system kept locking up so they had to keep coming back, or is it that Windows 7 users just don't visit government sites.  Everybody is bending over backwards to prove how successful Windows 10 is when they are really so full of shit their eyes have turned brown.  This isn't even news anymore.  The fact is Windows 10 only hit about 30% of its goal and even those numbers have proved to be inflated because they only count installs, oem sales, and other OS shipments to retailers, etc and don't take into account rollbacks and Windows 10 packages sitting in warehouses and on shelves, getting dusty.

Stop quoting  me and go tell the Register, Statcounter ,Net Market and the US Govt website . I just post the news if you dont stop quoting everything i post and stop wasting my time  i will just put you on ignore  dont bother me unless you got something to really  say to me as a person   . I just post the news to contribute is all i be off doing something else and you keep spamming it.   Always you quote people  and when they respond back you hardly ever  have a real debate so dont waste my time  . I think you just do it too try get attention and you showing up in my notifier is getting  old and annoying. One time  the mods had delete post because you went off topic in a software download post because i answered you back .