{"id":6384,"date":"2018-08-03T01:01:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T23:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/159.69.82.204\/win\/?p=6384"},"modified":"2018-08-02T20:09:37","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T18:09:37","slug":"operating-system-shares-on-the-desktop-end-of-july-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2018\/08\/03\/operating-system-shares-on-the-desktop-end-of-july-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Operating system shares on the desktop end of July 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline\" src=\"http:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/winb.jpg\" width=\"58\" align=\"left\" height=\"58\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/?p=207221\" target=\"_blank\">German<\/a>]July 2018 is over, and it's time to look at the figures for operating system distribution on the desktop and especially for Windows on early August 2018. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Operating system shares on the desktop<\/h2>\n<p>Looking at the latest figures from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.netmarketshare.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">netmarketshare.com<\/a> (until the end of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.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%22platform%22%2C%22sort%22%3A%7B%22share%22%3A-1%7D%2C%22id%22%3A%22platformsDesktop%22%2C%22dateInterval%22%3A%22Monthly%22%2C%22dateStart%22%3A%222017-08%22%2C%22dateEnd%22%3A%222018-07%22%2C%22segments%22%3A%22-1000%22%7D\" target=\"_blank\">July 2018<\/a>), Windows still runs on 88.43% (previous month 88.19%) of desktop systems. Mac OS comes to 9.01% (previous month 9.40%), while Linux runs on 1.92% (previous month 1.88%) of the system. Chrome OS is represented with 0.28% (previous month 0.29%). These are statistical fluctuations between the months.  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Operating System Market Share 8.2018\" alt=\"Operating System Market Share 8.2018\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/Vvr6eBm.jpg\"><br \/>(Source: Netmarketshare.com)  <\/p>\n<p>More details may be found using the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.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%222017-08%22%2C%22dateEnd%22%3A%222018-07%22%2C%22segments%22%3A%22-1000%22%7D\" target=\"_blank\">operating system share on desktop<\/a> shown below.  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"operating system share on desktop end of July 2018\" alt=\"operating system share on desktop end of July 2018\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/O68mIRX.jpg\"><br \/>(Source: Netmarketshare.com)  <\/p>\n<p>Windows 7 has a 'market share' of 42.95% (previous month 43.03%) on the desktop, while Windows 10 is 32.98% (previous month 34.92%). Windows 8.1 is 5.59% and Windows XP is 5.23% (previous month 4.36%). There is not really much going on &#8211; I would dismiss the figures for the previous month as statistical fluctuations.  <\/p>\n<p>If Microsoft put a lot of effort into Marketing, Windows 10 could overtake Windows 7 at end of this year. Of course you can also ask another statistician who promises a better oracle of numbers.  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Betriebssystemanteile Desktop Ende Juli 2018\" alt=\"Betriebssystemanteile Desktop Ende Juli 2018\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/pkXuUDe.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p>(Source: Statcounter.com)  <\/p>\n<p>The above graphic shows the numbers of <a href=\"http:\/\/gs.statcounter.com\/os-version-market-share\/windows\/desktop\/worldwide\" target=\"_blank\">statcounter<\/a> for the desktop. There, Windows 10 has long been ahead of Windows 7, reaching 47.25% (previous month 47.21%), while Windows 7 still reaches 39.06% (previous month 39.44%). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[German]July 2018 is over, and it's time to look at the figures for operating system distribution on the desktop and especially for Windows on early August 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[921,923,2],"tags":[1545],"class_list":["post-6384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-macos","category-windows","tag-os-marketshare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}