Windows 10 begins to dominate the Desktops

New data published by NetMarketShare reveal that Windows 10 continues to increase its market share. In April alone, Microsoft's operating system saw an increase in adoption of more than 1%.

In particular, Windows 10 increased from 44,10% in April to 45,73% in May, and this certainly delighted Microsoft as its operating system is now approaching the 50% milestone.

According to Microsoft statistics, more than 800 million devices are currently running Windows 10. The company from 2015 aimed to install the operating system on 1 billion devices by the end of 2017, but later admitted that achieving this of the target would be needed more than expected.

Meanwhile, the company is trying to get users from Windows 7, whose support is expected to happen in January 2020.

In May 2019, Windows 7 was at 35,44%, from 36,43% the previous month. So the increase in market share mentioned above in Windows 10 probably indicates that some of the 7 users have upgraded to Windows 10, although sales of new computers are also helping to adopt the latest version of the operating system.

Windows 8.1 continues to decline every month. In May, they fell from 4,22% to 3,97%.

Full statistics (April 2019 and May 2019) are available in the table below.

  Windows 10 Windows 7 macOS 10.14 Windows 8.1
April 2019 44.10% 36.43% 5.23% 4.22%
May 2019 45.73%  35.44%  5.34%  3.97% 

In May 2019, a new "fixed version" of Windows 10 was also released, officially called the Windows 10 May 2019 Update or 1903 version.

This particular version brings a lot of changes that could make the upgrade to Windows 10 much more appealing to Windows 7 users, with the light theme and Windows Sandbox, a feature that allows untrusted applications to run in a secure and closed environment.

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