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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: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 05 2016, @12:42AM
There's a lot of truth in what you said. 8-(
you need to enter and maintain a bunch of tax tables for accounting software
You wouldn't if the purpose of your gov't was to serve you and ALL of the other citizens and not to select winners in business.
That information would be available as Open Data in downloadable files.
until some company hires the necessary talent - and then it becomes another proprietary package
...and, as I like to say about the platform-specific proprietary apps:
If your "Windoze-only" app is old enough, it will likely run under WINE.
There are guys whose app has become the industry standard because they made a commitment to always be WINE-compatible and who did that over a decade ago. [google.com]
Skype for Linux
A spyware app from a malware company.
I have an item in my personal queue about replacements for this and other apps that make you surrender your privacy|control.
Gotta get that item submitted.
SystemD
The sin of trying to duplicate MICROS~1 technology methods and M$ business models.
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