The market watching firm says Windows 10 declined from 34.29% to 34.06% last month. Everyone now eligible to upgrade to the Fall Creators Update can now download the update. While Windows 10 remains low on fragmentation, there seems to be a slowdown of people adopting the new platform from older Windows versions. In some ways, Microsoft is in a race against time. Windows 7 remains the most used Windows platform with a sizeable 41.61% market share. The company will end support for the Win7 in 2020, so by then most people will need to be running Windows 10. In other words, the 42% using Windows 7 will be running an obsolete platform in two years unless they upgrade. Microsoft’s job will be converting those people to Windows 10 users. Windows 7 is declining, but at a very slow rate. Of course, Microsoft does not have to worry about its position as the dominant software provider on desktop. Windows is running on 87.66% of all PCs, although Apple’s MacOS enjoyed a small market increase from 4.46% to 4.96%.
Windows Adoption Declining
Still, it is clear Windows 10 adoption is slowing. That 87.66% market share for all Windows versions is Microsoft’s smallest lead for several years, down from 87.79%. NetMarketShare shows that Windows has been in decline for at least a year. At the start of last year, Windows was on 89.03% of all PCs but has been losing share month-on-month since. Microsoft is unlikely to be concerned about its position overall, but the company will want Windows 10 adoption to pick up with the launch of Redstone 4 this month.
