Windows 10 Still Can’t Keep Up with Windows 7

As weird as it may sound, an operating system launched in 2009 managed to improve its market share last month more than a successor released in 2015, as not all users seem ready to upgrade.

Specifically, data provided by NetMarketShare for the month of June 2018 reveals that Windows 7 not only that remained the top choice on the desktop, but it also increased its share.

Windows 7 jumped from 41.79 percent in May to 43.03 percent in June, while Windows 10 improved only from 34.74 percent to 34.92 percent. This means that while Windows 7 gained 1.24 percent, Windows 10 barely recorded 0.18 percent growth, all during a month when adoption was supposed to improve thanks to the arrival of a new OS version.

Microsoft launched Windows 10 April 2018 Update on April 30 as a manual download and then on May 8 via Windows Update. In June, the company announced that April 2018 Update was the fastest-adopted version of Windows 10 since the debut of the OS in 2015, declaring it ... (read more)

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