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posted by martyb on Friday January 10 2020, @09:56PM   Printer-friendly
from the but-Linux-owns-the-phones dept.

2019 Was the Year When Windows 10 Conquered the Desktop:

Windows 10, the operating system that Microsoft officially launched in mid-2015, became the number one desktop platform in 2020 after it managed to overtake its predecessor Windows 7.

[...] NetMarketShare [reports] Windows 10 started the year with 40.90% market share before dropping to 40.30% the next month. It reached a market share of 54.30% in November and ended 2020 with a personal record of 54.62%.

Windows 7, on the other hand, lost market share throughout the year, obviously because of the approaching end of support set for January 14. Windows 7 was running on 37.19% of the devices worldwide 12 months ago and then dropped gradually to a market share of 26.64% in December. With less than two weeks left until the end-of-life is reached, the market share of Windows 7 is very likely to continue going down, albeit not all devices will be upgraded before this milestone is reached.

Needless to say, the rest of the operating systems are far behind and pose no threat to the dominance of Windows 10. For example, Windows 8.1 is running on just 3.63% of the systems worldwide, while macOS 10.14 has a market share of 3.50%.


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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 10 2020, @11:28PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 10 2020, @11:28PM (#942077)

    54.62%.

    After being on the market for four years.

    "Conquered?" It may have the majority, but as the extreme level of people dragging their feet and refusing to "upgrade" from Windows 7 to Windows 10 should show that the only reason it managed to do so was because they rammed it down the throat of the public, usually using tactics reminiscent of ransomware and trojans to trick or force Win 7 users to install Win 10, often without their real consent or awareness until it was too late. I still remember the stories of people who got up and saw that they had been surprise-upgraded overnight, and as they needed to work they couldn't afford the downtime to uninstall the upgrade, not that OS's handle uninstallation very well. Or the users who didn't even know how to do so, and so they ended up stuck with the "new and improved" Windows.

    At this point in the Windows 7 life cycle it was pretty well praised and loved. Windows 10 seems to just keep getting hatred and ire. I'm half-expecting another attempt at "free upgrades" to do everything in Microsoft's power to dump it on Windows 7 users once they see how few capitulate when the updates end.

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