Windows 10 is installed on 21% of computers

Microsoft made a great effort for a whole year to make the adoption of Windows 10 as fast as possible, offering the license for free to all those users of Windows 7 and Windows 8. This strategy sought above all to capture Windows 7 users. By far the most widely used Microsoft operating system at the moment.

Windows 10 exceeds 20% share but still behind Windows 7

After the end of the free Windows 10 promotion on July 29, Net Applications data on the market share of the different operating systems most used in the world arrive. According to the study data, Windows 10 is already present in 21% of the world's computers and portable devices.

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The dizzying rise of Windows 10 has caused Windows 7 to drop below 50% market share, more specifically to 47%. Behind these are the old and beloved Windows XP with 10% and Windows 8.1 with 7.8% plus 2% that Windows 8 achieves. As for the different Linux distros, all together they manage to be present in 2.33% of computers of the world. Today, the number of computers with the Mac OS operating system is 4.69%.

Graph with the most used OS in the world

Although the growth of Microsoft's new operating system seems to be quite important, it is still less than half of what Windows 7 owns, so it still has a long way to go if it wants to unseat Windows 7 as the most widely used operating system in the world. world.

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