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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 Dunbal on Sunday September 04 2016, @12:51PM

    by Dunbal (3515) on Sunday September 04 2016, @12:51PM (#397362)

    Pretty fucking desperate when you have to break it down into the smallest sub-category where you are in the lead. And that, after GIVING your product away "free" for over a year as well as sneaking upgrades onto people's machines using unethical tricks and cheats any malware author would be proud of.

    I bought a new laptop. It had Windows 10 on it. First thing I did was wipe it.

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  • (Score: 2) by srobert on Sunday September 04 2016, @04:40PM

    by srobert (4803) on Sunday September 04 2016, @04:40PM (#397429)

    I bought a new laptop with Windows 7 a few months ago. I used it with Windows for about a week, then wiped and installed ArchLinux. When my wifi card becomes supported under FreeBSD (which I anticipate will be in about a year), I'll wipe ArchLinux and install FreeBSD.

    • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 05 2016, @01:12AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 05 2016, @01:12AM (#397604)

      Can I have your Windows 7 license? I want it for a future Windows 10 machine.