BetaNews - Friday, March 1, 2019 at 2:50 PM
Windows 10 loses share as Windows 7 makes significant gains
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There are lots of ways to measure Windows share including StatCounter and
Steam. Like most other tech sites, BetaNews<https://betanews.com> has always
focused on NetMarketShare<https://netmarketshare.com>, and at the start of the
year the analyst firm finally reported that Windows
10<https://betanews.com/topic/windows-10/> had overtaken its main rival,
Windows
7<https://betanews.com/2019/01/01/windows-10-finally-overtakes-windows-7/> (a
move that was a long time coming seeing as others had reported this happening
months earlier).
In January, the new OS consolidated its
lead<https://betanews.com/2019/02/01/windows-10-consolidates-its-lead-over-windows-7/>,
but in February things were far less rosy for Windows 10.
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Windows 10 still holds the lead (and that’s never going to change now) but in
February, the OS lost some of its share, going from 40.90 percent to 40.30
percent, a decline of 0.60 percentage points.
In the same timeframe, Windows 7 bounced back, going up from 37.19 percent to
38.41 percent, an increase of 1.22 percentage points.
That puts Windows 10 1.89 percentage points ahead of Windows 7, which is a big
drop from the 3.71 percentage point lead it lead it had in January.
Windows 10 fans who want to disagree with NetMarketShare's findings, can take
solace from
StatCounter<http://gs.statcounter.com/windows-version-market-share/desktop/worldwide/#monthly-201801-201902>'s
figures, as that firm shows Windows 10 growing by 1.6 percentage points in
February, to give it 54.78 percent, and Windows 7 declining by 1.16 percentage
points to give it 33.89 percent. That's a difference of 20.89 points in the new
OS's favor.
Elsewhere, NetMarketShare shows Windows 8.1 is now on 4.37 percent, a slight
improvement on the 4.34 percent share it held in the previous month.
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