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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.
(Score: 2) by srobert on Sunday September 04 2016, @04:19PM
That's been my experience as well. At my workplace we have for example PI-Data server addons for Excel spreadsheets (they don't work in LibreOffice), proprietary hydraulic modeling software, AutoCAD, and many other applications on Windows at my workplace. Our standard operating procedures have long evolved around these Windows only proprietary software packages. Linux and BSD has served my personal computing purposes for decades. But when I've shown it to my co-workers, they viewed it as fleeting curiosity, but were largely disinterested in it. And I imagine other industries and professions have the same issue. There's specialty software for engineers, dentist, veteranarians, architects, hotel operations, restaurants, etc. All of it running on Windows being used by large integrated groups who would find re-training to be too colossal a task.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 04 2016, @07:13PM
Look once again at the Subject line of the comment to which you responded.
Are your co-workers bringing home work to do over the weekend on their own boxes?
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