microsoft Microsoft Shows Windows 10 Market Share Growing Steadily, But The Numbers Are Fake

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Microsoft Shows Windows 10 Market Share Growing Steadily, But The Numbers Are Fake

 

 

Microsoft’s own Windows 10 share numbers have always seemed a little, well, generous. While NetMarketShare’s OS usage share figures show the new operating system doing fine, but lagging some distance behind Windows 7 (as you'd expect), Microsoft’s figures paint an entirely different picture.

 

Five months ago, the software giant showed Windows 10 hitting 50 percent in the US, and two months ago, it had the new OS overtaking Windows 7 globally. Today’s update though stretches the believability just a little too far.

 

Unlike NetMarketShare which updates its usage share numbers monthly, Microsoft's Windows Trends page is updated every 2-3 months. So while in a couple of days’ time NetMarketShare will report the numbers for January, Microsoft is only just now posting figures for November.

 

That means that when Microsoft showed Windows 10 overtaking Windows 7, this apparently happened in August last year. Most other analysts don’t see that seismic shift happening globally until December 2017, at the earliest.

 

There are other differences in what NetMarketShare and Microsoft report too. NetMarketShare gathers usage data -- the number of people using the OS -- while Microsoft records the number of devices the OS is installed on, including (presumably) unsold devices. NetMarketShare shows all flavors of Windows, from XP up, as well as other operating systems, while Microsoft only records Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10.

 

According to the latest figures from Microsoft, in November 2016 Windows 10 had 46 percent of the global Windows market. In the same time, Windows 7 declined to 39 percent (in contrast, in that month NetMarketShare had Windows 10 on 23.72 percent and Windows 7 on 47.17 percent).

 

Microsoft's update shows steady, and I guess fairly believable, growth for the new OS. The last time the figures were updated, Windows 10 had 43 percent share in August, and Windows 7 had 42 percent.

 

So why do I say the numbers are fake?

 

Well, the growth of Windows 10 and the decline of Windows 7 is just way too neat to be real. According to the Windows Trends figures, Microsoft grew by exactly one percentage point a month, every month from July to November (42 percent, 43 percent, 44 percent, 45 percent, 46 percent). At the same time, Windows 7 declined by exactly the same amount.

 

And if that doesn’t sound unlikely enough, Windows 8.1’s share went up one percentage point in August (to 13 percent) and hasn’t changed since. Windows 8’s share (2 percent) hasn’t wavered either. And that's ridiculous. Windows 8.x is an OS in decline.

 

 

It’s possible the new numbers are just placeholders, and Microsoft has dropped them in while awaiting the real figures (although why it would do that I have no idea). But if that's not the case, then I call BS. Microsoft’s Windows share numbers have been raising eyebrows for a while, but this latest lot smacks of just being made up.

 

I’ve asked Microsoft for comment, and will update the story when I hear back.

 

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[steven36]

I know in North America   Windows 10 is running  a close 2nd too Windows 7 according too .statcounter

 

 

http://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/north-america/#monthly-201507-201701

But what is more interesting  is if you add mobile too it

 

 

http://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/north-america/#monthly-201507-201701

 

IOS is in 1st and it passed windows 7 back in the summer and now Android  has a nice lead over Windows as well  Desktop OS are becoming outdated dinosaurs that mostly for work and places that have poor mobile internet reception . So i take anything those Windows journalist like beta news that try to start fights in there comments for hits so they make money from ads with a grain of salt and i only worry about whats going were i'm from i could care less about places were they just pirate a os lol.

 

 

World wide Android  is way ahead of Windows they been ahead since Dec 2015  Google owns the OS market  and the Browser Market now world wide  because you can buy a cheap phone  in many places were they was never able to access the internet before  in North America  phones are not that cheap  yet . So why do these sites post articles that show Microsoft competing with itself?  Truth be known Google are the mac daddy kings now lol. 

[luisam]

Long after "free update" ended, Microsoft continues hijacking Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 systems.  Just about 2 weeks my son "complained" that his laptop "crashed" and since about a month he couldn't connect Wi-Fi. I asked him what OS was he using and he told me he was not sure, probablly 8.1 because he bought his laptop at January 2016. When started up, I found Windows 10 and his problem was that the system didn't recognize the wireless adapter. Messing around some minutes, I could repair the problem and now this laptop runs perfectly the Windows 10.

He had also some problem with his 5 years old Toshiba, originally running Windows 7. The problem was that "suddenly" it got too slow.  Yes... it has now Windows 10 and obviously the computer uses more CPU and memory just for the OS. It had Avast Internet Security. I removed it and enabled Widows Defender and Windos Firewall and the laptop "recovered" some of it's original speed at the cost of somewhat lower security level.

So obviously, Microsoft is gaining users for Windows 10, increasing its global share, by the sale of new laptops and they continue silently hijacking 7, 8 and 8.1 and many of the users don't even know what happened!