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Windows 10 Now Rules the Weekend, Taking Over From Windows 7

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

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

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: 4, Insightful) by Chromium_One on Sunday September 04 2016, @03:51AM

    by Chromium_One (4574) on Sunday September 04 2016, @03:51AM (#397251)

    We're already there. it's just that as per usual the future is just unevenly distributed.

    You want solitaire? Pay up, and keep paying until you don't want it anymore.
    You want Office? Pay up, and keep paying until you don't want it anymore.

    This is slipping in slowly, it's not affecting everyone's usage patterns yet, but it will be.

    The frog needs a slow boil before people will accept paying monthly to be allowed to use DirectX or Notepad.

    Will things go that far? Depends on the pushback between now and then. Get pushing people.

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  • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Sunday September 04 2016, @04:05AM

    by Gaaark (41) on Sunday September 04 2016, @04:05AM (#397256) Journal

    Sheeple don't push until they find they're bring herded into the slaughterhouse...

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    • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Whoever on Sunday September 04 2016, @05:15AM

      by Whoever (4524) on Sunday September 04 2016, @05:15AM (#397284) Journal

      Sheeple don't push until they find they have been herded into the slaughterhouse...

      FTFY.