{"id":254529,"date":"2018-04-04T15:00:50","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T13:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=254529"},"modified":"2018-04-04T15:02:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T13:02:00","slug":"most-popular-operating-systems-on-desktop-and-mobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/254529-most-popular-operating-systems-on-desktop-and-mobile.html","title":{"rendered":"Most popular operating systems on desktop and mobile"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest data from NetMarketShare<\/strong><\/a> shows that Windows 7 remains comfortably ahead of Windows 10 on desktop PCs.<\/p>\n

Its March 2018 statistics also showed that iOS 11.2 and Android 7.0 are the most popular mobile operating systems, with 20.93% and 20.41% market share respectively.<\/p>\n

Android 8.0 has also gained market share since its launch in August 2017, but remains at below 5% of total operating system share on mobile.<\/p>\n

The most popular operating systems on desktop and mobile for March 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>\n43.44%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Windows 10<\/td>\n33.83%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Windows 8.1<\/td>\n5.46%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mac OS X 10.13<\/td>\n4.60%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Windows XP<\/td>\n4.59%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mac OS X 10.12<\/td>\n1.88%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mac OS X 10.11<\/td>\n1.27%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Linux<\/td>\n1.24%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Windows 8<\/td>\n1.14%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mac OS X 10.10<\/td>\n0.77%<\/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
Mobile OS Share \u2013 Total<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Android<\/td>\n70.96%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
iOS<\/td>\n27.84%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Unknown<\/td>\n0.83%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Windows Phone<\/td>\n0.13%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Series 40<\/td>\n0.10%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
RIM<\/td>\n0.06%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mobile OS Share \u2013 Version<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
iOS 11.2<\/td>\n20.93%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Android 7.0<\/td>\n20.41%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Android 6.0<\/td>\n16.93%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Android 5.1<\/td>\n8.60%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Android 7.1<\/td>\n6.85%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Android 8.0<\/td>\n4.53%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Android 4.4<\/td>\n3.82%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Android 4.1<\/td>\n3.81%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Android 5.0<\/td>\n2.48%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
iOS 10.3<\/td>\n2.33%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Now read:\u00a0Google could owe Oracle $8.8 billion for Java in Android<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The latest data from NetMarketShare shows that Windows 7 remains in the lead.<\/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":[397,35,691,17440,43684,807],"class_list":["post-254529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-android","tag-headline","tag-ios","tag-netmarketshare","tag-operating-systems","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254529"}],"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=254529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254697,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254529\/revisions\/254697"}],"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=254529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}