Three years after Windows 10 was launched to the public, the operating system has finally overtaken Windows 7 in desktop market share.<\/p>\n
This is according to data from NetMarkeShare<\/strong><\/a>, which tracks operating system and browser usage.<\/p>\n According to its data, in December 2018 Windows 10 reached 39.22% desktop OS market share, while Windows 7 was at 36.90%.<\/p>\n This follows Windows 10 gaining share throughout 2018, starting the year on 34.29% – while Windows 7 started on 42.39%.<\/p>\n It is interesting to note that Windows XP is still listed in the rankings, with 4.54% market share. This may be attributed to corporate or company usage, and a lack of upgrades by their IT department.<\/p>\n Steam’s statistics<\/strong><\/a> tell a similar story, and the gaming platform states that 63.79% of users are running Windows 10 (64 bit) as of December 2018.<\/p>\n By comparison, 26.08% of users on Steam are on Windows 7 (64 bit).<\/p>\n Three years after Windows 10 was launched, the operating system has finally overtaken Windows 7.<\/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":[807,26970,5214],"class_list":["post-290530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-windows","tag-windows-10","tag-windows-7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290530"}],"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=290530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290532,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290530\/revisions\/290532"}],"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=290530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0Man dies after cellphone explodes in his pocket \u2013 Report<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"