Win7 still #1 worldwide

[George Tyndall]

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/sticking-windows-7-sure-5-131519540.html

[sidd finch]

The History of Windows.

1 Windows 1.0x
2 Windows 2.x
3 Windows 3.0
4 OS/2
5 Windows 3.1x
6 Windows NT 3.x
7 Windows 95
8 Windows NT 4.0
9 Windows 98
10 Windows 2000
11 Windows ME
12 Windows XP
13 Windows Server 2003
14 Windows XP x64 and Server 2003 x64 Editions
15 Windows Server 2003 R2
16 Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs
17 Windows Home Server
18 Windows Vista
19 Windows Server 2008
20 Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2
21 Windows Home Server 2011
22 Windows Thin PC
23 Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012
24 Windows 10
25 Windows Server 2016

[George Tyndall]

Win7 market share.JPG

Source:

https://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10&qpcustomd=0

[Steve Grisetti]

FWIW, remember that most common doesn't necessarily mean the most popular or the best.

After all, McDonald's hamburgers are still the #1 most sold hamburger in the world.

[George Tyndall]

FWIW, remember that most common doesn't necessarily mean the most popular or the best.

After all, McDonald's hamburgers are still the #1 most sold hamburger in the world.

I completely agree that most popular does not prove best quality.

Question: You've said you like Chrome. Do you use Norton Identity Safe with it?

[Chris B]

Market share... It depends which market. There are two major drags for global market share. Firstly business (who are unlikely to change OS within a year) and secondly the far east where there is a large amount of piracy - this probably accounts for the 10% usage of windows XP. Does that correlate with your expereince - one in ten people you know are using windows XP on their computer? Here's a couple of other data sets.

The steam hardware survey shows Windows 10 usage passed 7 a couple of months ago. Steam's demographic is gamers who are home users and technology adopters (with the occasional holdout who claims it runs better on XP).

steam hardware.jpg

Second is the US government analytics website (https://analytics.usa.gov/) who provide usage data. This graph show the percentage usage of the top OS versions that are used to accesss .gov websites. (The ones claiming to be running windows before XP - including 3.1 (!) - are skipped)

us government.jpg

You can see the daily variation where weekdays are dominated with windows 7 at around 61%. However weekends which are more likely to be home users show windows 10 just edging out windows 7 in the past week or two - and it's rising.