Microsoft’s Windows 10 Is Catching Up to Windows XP

Windows 10 was released to the public back in July, meaning the operating system has averaged around 40 million new installs a month. After only one month, Windows 10 increased its share by approximately 5 percent, and everyone believed that it was the operating system that the whole world was waiting for.

Windows 10 accounted for 10.9% of all Windows devices in December, a higher number than its raw user share number because Windows powered 91.3%, not 100%, of all systems tallied by Net Applications.

In December 2015 about 10% of the internet users was still on the unsupported Windows XP, according to market research companies NetApplications and StatCounter.

There’s word that Windows 10 is now running on approximately 200 million devices out there, which means that 20 percent of the goal has already been achieved.

Microsoft which remains the market leader in the Operating systems space for Desktop and Laptops has revealed figures of the market share of its Windows OS.

And the company indeed experienced an avalanche of upgrades, but only in the first 48 hours, with Microsoft’s servers failing to keep up with the activation attempts of devices that installed Windows 10. Windows 8.1 comes in third place with 10.30 percent, and it should come as no surprise that Windows 10 will soon take over in third place.

However, another data source – Ireland’s StatCounter – showed that Windows 10’s growth increased in December. In December, that figure was less than 1 point.

The report further adds that Windows 10’s user base did rise last month, though was slightly less than the growth seen in the previous month.

Windows 10 had 9.00 percent market share in November, and gained 0.96 percentage points to hit 9.96 percent in December.

Windows Vista managed to gain 0.01 points to 1.62 percent and Windows XP also somehow rebounded 0.34 points to 10.93 percent. But the next 12 months will definitely be critical and Microsoft hopes to complete its mission with help from enterprises and Windows 10 Mobile devices.

Windows 10’s user share almost reached 11% by the end of 2015, but gains continued to shrink, and for the first time fell behind the pace set by Windows 7 in 2009-2010.