Windows 10 After 6 Months: Already the Second Most Used Desktop OS

Stats show Windows 10 adoption keeps improving

Windows 10 was launched six months ago and since then, Microsoft has been pushing really hard to encourage users to adopt it and benefit from the free upgrade offer available for those on Windows 7 and 8.1.

New statistics show that all these Microsoft’s efforts are paying off to a certain degree, as Windows 10 has become the second most-used desktop operating system across the world, but it still has a hard time getting closer to leader Windows 7.

Data provided by StatCounter reveals that right now, Windows 10 is powering 13.52 percent of the desktop computers, while Windows 7 leads the pack with 46.8 percent. Windows 8.1 is losing ground every month and is now third with 11.66 percent

Hopefully by end of the year July 2016 it will be No1.
In my eyes it already is.
I never liked Seven at all.

Nice to know.. hard to say how much the free upgrade had to play with these numbers but heck,, free can be a good thing.

I like windows 10 almost as much as I like apple's os x. so far it seems almost as stable but still need to do disk clean up and defrag on a regular basis unlike mac and still have to use an anti virus unlike mac.

I like windows 10 almost as much as I like apple's os x. so far it seems almost as stable but still need to do disk clean up and defrag on a regular basis unlike mac and still have to use an anti virus unlike mac.

I do a disk cleanup only after an update and since I have an SSD I don't need to perform a defrag. Overall I think that 10 is headed in the right direction and the insider program is the best thing MS has done.

I am thinking about updating this laptop to a ssd drive, but the fact is you still have to use anti virus and in fact do a disk clean up occasionally unlike apple. I was hoping Microsoft would have gotten rid of those issues. if apple can why cant they?

I never run disc cleanup or defrag, windows runs these automatically so I see no need

Just let the OS manage itself

I am thinking about updating this laptop to a ssd drive, but the fact is you still have to use anti virus and in fact do a disk clean up occasionally unlike apple. I was hoping Microsoft would have gotten rid of those issues. if apple can why cant they?

My take on it is this. The market share Apple is not large enough to make it profitable for hackers to attack the OS at this point. It takes time and effort to develop virus and malware and if there is no pay back then no one will put in that effort. While with Windows there are more users and the cost befit favors attacking those machines. Overall you can get by with Defender and not have any real issues. I use Avira free and I don't have any issues with it.

And putting an SSD will definitely be a major improvement and you can schedule the clean up so it's no longer necessary to do that manually.

I am running comodo internet security for anti virus. never had an issue in the 2 months I have been using it... however I am sure that any anti-virus software has somewhat of an over all performance impact however minor....but it is still there

I am running comodo internet security for anti virus. never had an issue in the 2 months I have been using it... however I am sure that any anti-virus software has somewhat of an over all performance impact however minor....but it is still there

I agree.. but it's something that's needed unfortunately..