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posted by janrinok on Sunday September 04 2016, @02:05AM   Printer-friendly
from the home-versus-business dept.

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.

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.

Its hardly surprising seeing that Microsoft have made it very difficult not to upgrade.


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  • (Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 04 2016, @02:51AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 04 2016, @02:51AM (#397232)

    Thank you captain obvious.

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  • (Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 04 2016, @06:10AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 04 2016, @06:10AM (#397299)

    "Captain Obvious" is a derisive moniker applied to people who state commonly known facts.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 04 2016, @11:13AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 04 2016, @11:13AM (#397341)

      Thank you, Captain Obvious.

    • (Score: 1) by Francis on Sunday September 04 2016, @04:27PM

      by Francis (5544) on Sunday September 04 2016, @04:27PM (#397424)

      Indeed, Admiral Redundant.