{"id":330977,"date":"2019-12-02T10:09:25","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T08:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=330977"},"modified":"2019-12-02T10:10:48","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T08:10:48","slug":"windows-10-is-losing-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/330977-windows-10-is-losing-ground.html","title":{"rendered":"Windows 10 is losing ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Windows 10 saw a surprising decrease in desktop operating system market share in November 2019, according to data from <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%222018-12%22%2C%22dateEnd%22%3A%222019-11%22%2C%22segments%22%3A%22-1000%22%7D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>NetMarketShare<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is still the dominant desktop operating system, boasting 53.33% of market share, but is down nearly 1% from October 2019.<\/p>\n<p>This is in contrast with previous months, which saw a significant increase in the market share of the latest Windows operating system.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Windows 7 stabilises<\/h3>\n<p>The operating system with the second largest market share, Windows 7, saw a negligible decrease to 26.86% in November.<\/p>\n<p>Windows 7 had seen a much larger decline in its market share over the past few months, falling from 36.43% in April to 26.94% in October.<\/p>\n<p>This historic decrease is largely due to the fact that Microsoft will stop supporting this older operating system from 14 January 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Of the other popular operating systems, MacOS X 10.14 and 10.15 have a combined market share of 8.08%, while Windows 8.1 has a market share of 3.32%.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Upgrade to Windows 10<\/h3>\n<p>Microsoft has encouraged users to upgrade from older operating systems like Windows 7 and Windows 8.1, to its latest operating system &#8211; Windows 10.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that Windows 7 will lose support in January 2020 means that upgrading from Windows 7 is particularly urgent.<\/p>\n<p>While the official free upgrade period which allowed users to upgrade from Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 has expired, it is still possible to make the switch at no cost.<\/p>\n<p>This is thanks to an <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/330971-you-can-still-upgrade-to-windows-10-for-free.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>exploit<\/strong><\/a> which allows users to upgrade to Windows 10 by manipulating their device\u2019s system clock.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/330971-you-can-still-upgrade-to-windows-10-for-free.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">You can still upgrade to Windows 10 for free<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows 10 saw a surprising decrease to its desktop operating system market share in November 2019, according to data from NetMarketShare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":127880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[14111,26970,5214],"class_list":["post-330977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-market-share","tag-windows-10","tag-windows-7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330977"}],"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=330977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330995,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330977\/revisions\/330995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}