{"id":253681,"date":"2018-03-26T15:26:33","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T13:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=253681"},"modified":"2018-03-26T15:29:31","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T13:29:31","slug":"windows-10-is-almost-at-50-adoption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/253681-windows-10-is-almost-at-50-adoption.html","title":{"rendered":"Windows 10 is almost at 50% adoption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Windows 10 launched in South Africa in July 2015, following an extensive programme by Microsoft to encourage users to upgrade.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft offered a free update to the operating system to Windows 7 and 8 users, but not all took the offer.<\/p>\n<p>According to the latest figures from Microsoft, however, Windows 10 adoption is steadily increasing.<\/p>\n<p>Figures from <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.microsoft.com\/en-us\/store\/windows-app-data-trends\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Windows and Microsoft Store trends<\/strong><\/a> show that, as of February 2018, global Windows 10 adoption was 48%.<\/p>\n<p>By comparison, in February 2017 Windows 10 adoption was 39%.<\/p>\n<p>This is based on PC and tablet user data, which is obtained from users who have opted to send Microsoft their telemetry data.<\/p>\n<p>For February 2018, Windows 7 was at 39%, while Windows 8 was at 13%.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/253247-cloudflare-launches-mobile-network-monitoring-tool.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Cloudflare launches mobile network monitoring tool<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to figures from Microsoft, Windows 10 adoption is steadily increasing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":174478,"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":[123,26970],"class_list":["post-253681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-microsoft","tag-windows-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253681"}],"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=253681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253699,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253681\/revisions\/253699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}