Windows 10 stagnates in the achieved market share. Blame the end of free updates?

Windows 10 has been around for a long time. A time that has served to learn the good and the not so good of the Microsoft operating system, something that above all is possible due to impressions and _feedback_ that the users who install it on their computers are generated.

The number of installations since it was launched on the market has been more than remarkable. Firstly, because of the computers that little by little were including Windows 10 originally, and especially because of the free update process that allowed Windows 7 and Windows 8 users to .1 could upgrade to Windows 10 at zero cost.

However, this grace period, this period of time to update without cost, came to an end (in July 2016) and with the end of it we saw for the first time the figures that reflect the Windows 10 market share was falling globally. It was the first sign that something was changing and a longer-term study would have to be done to see if the trend continued.

So we go back to the figures provided by Netmarketshare for the month of October and we see that although they have improved from the previous ones, they continue to show that the ascending curve It's history and the ecosystem shows a stagnation in its market share growth.

October improves compared to September but the trend is for minimal growth in the market share of Windows 10

Thus coinciding with the month of August and the end of the program to update for freea slowdown can be seen in the graph in as far as the adoption of Windows 10 is concerned. Figures that have stabilized around 22% with variations ranging from 22.99% in August, through the 22.53% achieved in September to 22.59% in the month of October that just ended.

This is how we see how since the update to Windows 10 stopped being free the penetration of the operating system has fallen a global of 0.40% . This means that there may not be as many Windows 10 computers being sold as one might initially think and that the strength of the growth could come mainly from updates from users who already had a previous version.

Now Windows 10 has to keep growing without a safety netFrom now on and waiting for the Creators Update we will only see some figures that will reflect, above all, the new equipment that reaches the market, since it has been shown that the updates prior to checkout represent a clearly lower figure if we compare them with those that they had. zero cost. Microsoft will continue to hold the top spot in terms of market share in desktop operating systems, but now it will do so with much more down-to-earth numbers.

Via | WinBeta In Xataka Windows | Windows 10 numbers drop for the first time in September of this year