Netmarketshare: Windows 10 finally captures 50% of the market share

[Karlston]

Netmarketshare: Windows 10 finally captures 50% of the market share

Netmarketshare has released their numbers for August 2019 and they are mostly good for Microsoft. After pushing Windows 10 to the customers since launch, the Operating System has finally managed to capture 50% of the market share. Moving to the web browser, Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer both have seen a minor bump in the market share this month.

 

 

On the Operating System side, Windows 10 has gained around 2% of the market share and currently sits at 50.99%. Windows 7, on the other hand, dropped to 30.44%. Coming on the third position is macOS 10.14 with a market share of 5.95%. While the OS section brought good news for Microsoft, the company still has to push almost 30% of the users to upgrade to Windows 10 as Windows 7 reaches End-of-support.

 

 

Moving on to the browser section Microsoft Edge is still struggling but has registered a minor bump in the market share. Google Chrome, on the other hand, has dropped down to 67.22% and is followed by Mozilla Firefox which is sitting at 8.43% of the market share. It is then followed by Internet Explorer which sits at 7.50%. Coming in fourth is Microsoft Edge with just 6.34% of the market share.

 

As we noted above, this month has mostly good for Microsoft. The company can celebrate the fact that more and more people are switching to Windows 10. However, at the same time, Microsoft needs to make sure people move from Windows 7 before the end-of-support.

 

 

 

Source: Netmarketshare: Windows 10 finally captures 50% of the market share  (MSPoweruser)

[steven36]

Meanwhile  at start counter OS market share for Windows shrink  from   Aug  35.12 %  to Sept  35.01%. Every month Windows have less users it seems .

[Karlston]

10 hours ago, steven36 said:

Every month Windows have less users it seems

 

Not necessarily.  There will be more devices each month, so a smaller percentage of a larger number of devices could still be a bigger number. For example...

 

20% of 1,000 = 200

19% of 1,100 = 209 (percentage down, but numbers up)

[steven36]

4 hours ago, Karlston said:

 

Not necessarily.  There will be more devices each month, so a smaller percentage of a larger number of devices could still be a bigger number. For example...

 

20% of 1,000 = 200

19% of 1,100 = 209 (percentage down, but numbers up)

Android grew in the market while windows declined  last month which is nothing new . Windows  went from over 51% in 2015 to 35% today in 2019 . The reason being in the countries that have the most internet users  have way more Android users than Windows .  Like China  , India  and most all the EU .   The US  , AU and Russia still have more Windows users  but if you add Iphone  and Android  together they dont which makes Windows market share  even less vs Mobile. Some countries is just more split on which mobile OS they use is all  . In China they have more Windows 7 users than  Windows 10  and more Android users than all of Windows . The fact Microsoft  never was able to break into smart phone market means it's growth is dead . Lucky for them smartphones sales have slowed down but i look for Windows  to lose a lot  more users  in 2020 when  Windows 7 is EOL. There a lot of people still on Windows 7 that not interested in using Windows 10..  Windows 10 can grow all it wants against Windows 7 and that dont really mean anything because  Windows 7 users are already Windows users so Microsoft dont gain any new users by getting them to use windows 10  the problem the have is the 65%  of the internet  that use other OS instead.