The reign of windows 7 comes to an end, windows 10 surpasses you

Two and a half years have passed since its launch for Windows 10 to surpass Windows 7 in market share. Until recently Windows 7 was the most used operating system in the world, according to the data provided by StatCounter , during the month of January Windows 10 has overtaken you.

WIndows 10 is already present in 42.78% of the world's computers

During the month of December, both operating systems had been tied for market share, with approximately 41-42%. Finally, January 2018 was the month in which Windows 10 managed to surpass Windows 7, becoming the most used operating system on the planet with a share of 42.78%. Windows 7, meanwhile, drops to 41.86%.

Already during the month of October, you could see that the adoption of Windows 10 had accelerated and that of Windows 7 was starting to drop, a trend that continued throughout 2017.

It is only a matter of time until all firms report the same. However, this news comes years after what Microsoft expected with Windows 10; The adoption of the operating system has not been exactly as the company had anticipated. However, the work Microsoft has been doing to improve the system with various updates seems to be paying off.

Even so, the most popular operating system among players is still Windows 7, as indicated by Steam statistics, where the system is used by 55% of players. Windows 10 remains at 37%.

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