Windows 10 arrived on July 29th and in ten days downloaded by 27 million users and in the first 24 hours 14 million of them. But in the past weeks it slowed down and new operating system has stabilized at nearly five per cent market share.
Between the 9th and 16th of August, there was an increase of 1.36 percent, a week before recorded 3.78 percent. That makes a total of 4.95 percent of the market share and about 35 million users. The forecasts, according to these findings, go in the direction that all those who want to download the Windows 10 immediately, they did it, and now everything will slow down significantly.
In fact, it cannot satisfy Microsoft because they actually poured sand in the desert, Windows 8 / 8.1 users are massively crossed on Windows 10 and on the market now that operating system makes 14.09 per cent (8.1) instead of 15.03 last week, and 8.0 makes 3.39 percent and fell to just 0.11 percent. So, the two versions are together on 17.48 percent and were dropped to 1.05 percent.
As for Windows XP, they fell from 9.98 to 9.74 percent and that is what worries Microsoft. But that is all their own fault. If they offered to owners of this 15 year old operating system free upgrade, the numbers would have been better. Maybe they expect that all of them could move to Windows 10 next year and pay it, but it is unrealistic expectations.
More realistic is forecast that all the larger companies and institutions around the world will begin to cross to Windows 10, and that would mean 25 to 35 percent of the share for Windows 10 and they would be close to the plan by the end of 2018 with expected 75 percent.
But first they must to “force” Windows 7 users to complete the transition. Because, Windows 7 is currently at 53.5 percent and which is worse – the operating system had an increase of 0.04 during the week. This means that users who have switched to Windows 10 used the option of returning to the old OS, because anyone can do it during the first month of taking Windows 10th.
Microsoft is aware that the first wave ended, now comes the harder part of work and we will see how they adjust.
