Windows 10 has been released since July 2015 and the free upgrade period for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows 8.1 system ended at July 29, 2016. Now new figures for marketing share of desktop operating systems has been released.
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In August 2016, netmarketshare claims that Windows 10 has reached 22,99 % market share on desktop system. And a few days ago, Microsoft reported 400 Million Windows 10 activations (see ZDNet.com). But activation isn't "using Windows 10 on devices". New figures for September 2016 shows a decline of Windows 10 market share. Here are the market shares obtained from netmarketshare.com. Windows has a whole market share of 93.83 % on desktop, while Mac OS reaches 5.2% and Linux 0.96%.
(Source: netmarketshare.com)
Windows 10 now claims 22.53 %, which is a slight decline compared to the 22.99 % in previous month (but it can be a statistical effect). Windows 7 has reached a new height of 48.27 %, while Windows XP still claims 9,11 % on desktop system. Windows 8.1 is running on 7.83 % and Windows 8 on 1,78 % of all desktops. Here is the trend from November 2015 till September 2016, that shows the decline of Windows 10 use.