Operating System/Windows share (February 2019)

The desktop operating system share and Windows distribution data for end of February 2019 shows: The replacement of Windows 7 till 2020 is becoming difficult. The 'market share' of Windows 7 desktop systems has even increased slightly, while the shares of Windows 10 have declined last month.

AdDuplex numbers

I haven't been discussing it for some time, because the numbers of AdDuplex for the Windows 10 distribution are statistically too uncertain for me. But the AdDuplex Windows 10-Report für Februar 2019 shows that the rollout of Windows 10 October 2018 Update (V1809) is very slow. Currently, only 21.2% of Windows 10 machines are running with this version. So the disaster at the rollout of the October 2018 update continues.

Netmarketshare figures

Looking at the latest figures from netmarketshare.com (until the end of February 2019), Windows still runs at 87.43 (Jan. 2019: 86.23%) of desktop systems. Mac OS comes to 9.69% (Jan. 10.59%), while Linux runs 2.11% (Jan. 2.45%) of the system. 

(netmarketshare.com OS-Market-Share 2.2019, Click to zoom)

NetMarketShare issues the following figures for the desktop operating systems at the end of February 2019:

• Windows 10 is at 40.30 % (previous month 40.90 %),
• Windows 7 is at 38.41 % (previous month 37.19 %),
• Windows 8.1 is at 4.37 % (previous month 4.34 %),
• macOS 10.13 is at 2.26 % (previous month 2.73 %).

Windows 10 had to give up 0.6%, while Windows 7 even gained 1.22%. But these can be statistical fluctuations. The coming months will probably remain exciting, as support for Windows 7 will expire in January 2020 (only companies can extend it for a fee).