Microsoft’s effort in developing Windows 10 seems to have paid off handsomely

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Microsoft’s effort in developing Windows 10 seems to have paid off handsomely with adoption rate rapidly rising since its introduction in July, reportedly passing the 100 million mark just recently. And now we have some fresh statistics from StatCounter to put the numbers in light of comparison with some of its bigger competitors, mainly OSX.
StatCounter measures search engine usage on multiple platforms to determine the top desktop, tablet and console OSes in marketshare. Here are the most recent statistics for the worldwide market presented in graph form, which shows that while Windows 7 still reigns supreme, Windows 10 is fast approaching Windows 8.1 and has already surpassed OSX by 0.20%:



Microsoft Windows 10 adoption may have already surpassed OSX globally

 

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It is disappoint to see so many XP stragglers still refusing to let go. That said, I suppose "Other" includes some 95/98 users too.

Odd that there are so many Windows 8 users. I don't understand why they would not have patched to 8.1, unless they were not legal.