Windows 10 continues to increase its market share as users upgrade from Windows 7 to Microsoft’s latest desktop operating system.<\/p>\n
Data from NetMarketShare<\/strong><\/a> shows that Windows 7’s market share has dipped under 30%, while Windows 10 has reached its highest ever market share at 52.38%.<\/p>\n Windows 7’s market share has been declining throughout 2019, but this decline has been more pronounced over the past few months.<\/p>\n A major contributing factor to this is the fact that Microsoft has set the end-of-life deadline for Windows 7 at 14 January 2020.<\/p>\n Continued use of Windows 7 after the end-of-life deadline will leave users exposed to a variety of security vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n For this reason, it is important that Windows 7 user numbers continue to drop – as it indicates that more users are becoming aware they need to upgrade their Windows 7 operating system before January 2020.<\/p>\n NetMarketShare’s statistics show that this upgrade is happening at an accelerated pace.<\/p>\n Windows 7’s market share has dropped by over 2% over the past month, and by over 7% in the second half of 2019.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Windows 10 has seen substantial gains in market share, up from 50.99% in August to 52.38% in September.<\/p>\n Mac OS X 10.14 also saw surprising market share increases in September, with Apple adding over 1% of the market to its operating system.<\/p>\n Below is how the market share of the top 5 desktop operating systems has changed since March 2019.<\/p>\nWindows 7 continues to fall<\/h3>\n