14 DAY TRIAL // Windows 10 adoption continues to improve every month, and data offered by Microsoft itself indicates that the operating system has now reached 48 percent market share.
The data concerns the Windows userbase, and Microsoft shows that while Windows 10 is going up, Windows 7 is collapsing, which can only be a good thing given that it’s projected to reach end of support in January 2020.
As compared to January, Windows 10 improved 1 percent, getting closer to powering nearly half of the Windows PCs worldwide. A trends analysis shows that Windows 10 has improved gradually in the last 12 months, and if the same pace is maintained, this OS version should reach 50 percent share in approximately two months.
Windows 7, on the other hand, is slowly but surely losing ground, and this certainly makes sense given Microsoft’s often-aggressive push for Windows 10. Windows 7 was running on 45 percent of Windows systems in February 2017, but gradually declined every month before dropping to 38 percent in February 2018.
What’s next for Windows
Windows 10 adoption, however, is very likely to continue improving in the coming months, especially given that Microsoft keeps working on new updates and features. In April, for instance, Microsoft will debut Windows 10 Redstone 4, likely to launch as Spring Creators Update, while another big release will happen in the fall, probably in October.
This new approach for Windows, which Microsoft itself calls Windows as a Service, means that while new versions of Windows 10 are released, the oldest are being abandoned, so users need to always upgrade to the latest builds as they are released.
On the other hand, it’ll be interesting to see how Microsoft handles the demise of Windows 7, as this particular operating system continues to be surprisingly popular despite being released in 2009. After the January 2020, no new security patches would be shipped for Windows 7, meaning that systems running it could be exposed to exploits aimed at unresolved vulnerabilities.