{"id":308423,"date":"2019-06-03T10:18:07","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T08:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=308423"},"modified":"2019-06-03T10:18:30","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T08:18:30","slug":"windows-10-market-share-continues-to-climb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/308423-windows-10-market-share-continues-to-climb.html","title":{"rendered":"Windows 10 market share continues to climb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/netmarketshare.com\/operating-system-market-share.aspx?options=%7B%22filter%22%3A%7B%22%24and%22%3A%5B%7B%22deviceType%22%3A%7B%22%24in%22%3A%5B%22Desktop%2Flaptop%22%5D%7D%7D%5D%7D%2C%22dateLabel%22%3A%22Trend%22%2C%22attributes%22%3A%22share%22%2C%22group%22%3A%22platformVersion%22%2C%22sort%22%3A%7B%22share%22%3A-1%7D%2C%22id%22%3A%22platformsDesktopVersions%22%2C%22dateInterval%22%3A%22Monthly%22%2C%22dateStart%22%3A%222018-06%22%2C%22dateEnd%22%3A%222019-05%22%2C%22segments%22%3A%22-1000%22%7D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>NetMarketShare<\/strong><\/a> has released its May 2019 desktop operating system market share data, which shows that Windows 10 continues to extend its lead over Windows 7.<\/p>\n<p>Windows 10 now boasts a 45.73% portion of the desktop OS market share, a significant increase from April&#8217;s 44.10% figure.<\/p>\n<p>Windows 7, meanwhile, continues to lose market share, decreasing nearly a whole percentage point from 36.43% to 35.44% over the last month.<\/p>\n<p>macOS 10.14 has seen a slight increase in its market share, while Windows 8.1 lost 0.25% market share, falling to under 4%.<\/p>\n<p>Windows 10 <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/292752-windows-7-users-what-you-need-to-know.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>took over<\/strong><\/a> from Windows 7 as the most popular desktop operating system in December 2018, and has since grown a substantial lead over the older operating system.<\/p>\n<p>Users with Windows 7 installed will need to upgrade to Windows 10 by 14 January 2020 to avoid losing support for their operating system.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/308241-new-whatsapp-features-for-iphone.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">New WhatsApp features for iPhone<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NetMarketShare has released its May 2019 desktop operating system market share data, which shows that Windows 10 continues to extend its lead over Windows 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":193098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[36626,17440,26970,5214,19781],"class_list":["post-308423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-macos","tag-netmarketshare","tag-windows-10","tag-windows-7","tag-windows-8-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308423"}],"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\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308423\/revisions"}],"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=308423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}