{"id":247473,"date":"2018-02-02T16:47:36","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T14:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=247473"},"modified":"2018-02-02T16:50:04","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T14:50:04","slug":"windows-10-overtakes-windows-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/247473-windows-10-overtakes-windows-7.html","title":{"rendered":"Windows 10 overtakes Windows 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Windows 10 has overtaken Windows 7 in global market share for PCs that use the web, according to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/gs.statcounter.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">StatCounter<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Windows 10 made up 42.78% of operating system usage share around the world, while Windows 7 was at 41.86%, according to January 2018 figures.<\/p>\n<p>In South Africa, Windows 10 overtook Windows 7 in October 2017, and has 44.12% of the usage share. Windows 7 has 41.24% share.<\/p>\n<p>StatCounter is a web analytics service that calculates various market and usage share statistics, based on visits to over 2 million sites around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Bot activity is removed from the results, it noted.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Global: Windows 10 vs Windows 7<\/h3>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/StatCounter-operating-systems-February-2018.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-247481\" src=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/StatCounter-operating-systems-February-2018-640x283.jpg\" alt=\"StatCounter operating systems February 2018\" width=\"640\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/StatCounter-operating-systems-February-2018-640x283.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/StatCounter-operating-systems-February-2018-600x266.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/StatCounter-operating-systems-February-2018-768x340.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/StatCounter-operating-systems-February-2018.jpg 1120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">South Africa:\u00a0Windows 10 vs Windows 7<\/h3>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/StatCounter-operating-systems-February-2018-South-Africa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-247479\" src=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/StatCounter-operating-systems-February-2018-South-Africa-640x285.jpg\" alt=\"StatCounter operating systems February 2018 South Africa\" width=\"640\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/StatCounter-operating-systems-February-2018-South-Africa-640x285.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/StatCounter-operating-systems-February-2018-South-Africa-600x267.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/StatCounter-operating-systems-February-2018-South-Africa-768x342.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/StatCounter-operating-systems-February-2018-South-Africa.jpg 1129w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/14893-windows-7-overtakes-vista.html\">Windows 7 overtakes Vista<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows 10 has overtaken Windows 7 in global market share, according to StatCounter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":193098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[123,3884,26970,5214],"class_list":["post-247473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-microsoft","tag-statcounter","tag-windows-10","tag-windows-7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247473"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247473"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247495,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247473\/revisions\/247495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}