{"id":247646,"date":"2018-02-13T12:59:14","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T10:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=247646"},"modified":"2018-02-13T12:59:47","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T10:59:47","slug":"most-popular-operating-systems-for-desktop-and-mobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/247646-most-popular-operating-systems-for-desktop-and-mobile.html","title":{"rendered":"Most popular operating systems for desktop and mobile"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest stats from NetMarketShare<\/strong><\/a> show that Windows 10 is still behind Windows 7 on desktop, but it is catching up.<\/p>\n

The January 2018 statistics also revealed that Android 7.0 and iOS 11.2 are the most popular mobile operating systems, with 22.65% and 19.26% market share respectively.<\/p>\n

Android 6.0 follows closely behind iOS 11.2, with a market share of 17.97%.<\/p>\n

The most popular operating systems on desktop and mobile for January 2018 are detailed below.<\/p>\n

Desktop Operating Systems<\/h3>\n

\"Windows<\/a><\/p>\n

\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Desktop OS Share<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Windows 7<\/td>\n42.39%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Windows 10<\/td>\n34.29%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Windows 8.1<\/td>\n5.56%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mac OS X 10.13<\/td>\n4.46%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Windows XP<\/td>\n4.05%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mac OS X 10.12<\/td>\n2.65%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mac OS X 10.11<\/td>\n1.47%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Linux<\/td>\n1.31%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Windows 8<\/td>\n1.13%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mac OS X 10.10<\/td>\n0.87%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Mobile Operating Systems<\/h3>\n

\"Android<\/a><\/p>\n

\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Mobile OS Share \u2013 Total<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Android<\/td>\n68.50%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
iOS<\/td>\n30.65%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Unknown<\/td>\n0.43%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Windows Phone<\/td>\n0.15%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Series 40<\/td>\n0.12%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
RIM<\/td>\n0.09%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mobile OS Share \u2013 Version<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Android 7.0<\/td>\n22.65%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
iOS 11.2<\/td>\n19.26%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Android 6.0<\/td>\n17.97%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Android 5.1<\/td>\n9.31%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Android 7.1<\/td>\n6.63%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Android 4.4<\/td>\n4.17%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
iOS 11.1<\/td>\n3.27%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
iOS 10.3<\/td>\n3.26%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
iOS 11.0<\/td>\n9.75%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Android 5.0<\/td>\n2.68%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
iOS 11.0<\/td>\n1.85%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Now read:\u00a0Android 8.1 now shows the speed of Wi-Fi networks<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Windows 10 is still behind Windows 7 on desktop, according to NetMarketShare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":176111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[35,1125,2120,14111,807],"class_list":["post-247646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-headline","tag-iphone","tag-mac","tag-market-share","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247646"}],"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\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248377,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247646\/revisions\/248377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}