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Windows 10 crossed for the first time the 40% mark last month, but the adoption still lags behind the venerable Windows 7, which refused to budge from its dominant position.
According to California analytics provider Net Applications, Windows 10 added a percentage point in June, accounting for 35.7 percent of all PC users and 40.4 percent of all PC users. Windows last month (the second number is more important than the first, Windows powering 87.9% of the 40.4 percent accounted for about 606 million Windows personal computers, calculated using the number of Windows PC of 1.5 billion Windows never quoted by Microsoft.
that the operating system was on "nearly 700 million connected devices", a statistic that he boasted at the beginning However, Microsoft does not only count PCs, but also Xbox gaming consoles, tablets and number of Windows-based smartphones running on Windows 10.
Even the figure of 700 million, a few millions, did not reach the target set by Microsoft in May 2015, months before the debut of Windows 10, so … Terry Myerson, director of Windows, said, "Our goal is that in the next two or three years of Windows 10, there will be a billion of devices running Windows 10. "
A little more than a year later, Microsoft disavowed But industry analysts have drawn attention to other factors that have made the target of a billion or bust impossible to achieve, including a long decline in global PC shipments. 19659002] While Windows 10 recorded an impressive gain in June – the largest since January – contrary to expectations, Windows 7 has lost little
The 2009 operating system dropped by half a percentage point last month, ending with a share of 41.7% of all users personal computers and 47.3% of those on Windows. The number of applications, the growth of Windows 10 is done at the expense of Windows 8 and 8.1 (which shrank by four tenths of a point) and the old Windows XP (which dropped close to one percentage point).
While the increase of Windows 10 was good news for Microsoft, the stubbornness of Windows 7 was not. As the end of support for Windows 7 approaches – there is now 18 months – the forecast remains cloudy.
Computerworld is currently predicting that, based on the last 12 months of Windows, Windows 7 will account for over 36% of all active Windows editions in January 2020. At that time, Windows 10 needed power nearly 60% of all Windows laptops and desktops
