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Microsoft launched their new operating system to appropriate fanfare in July, and since then the Windows 10 usage numbers have painted an expected picture.
Early adoption from fans and enthusiasts was quick, followed by steady arrivals of general consumers.
But while enterprise and business reach has been slow, and expected to improve next year, government usage seems to have picked up pace — US government, at least, if not others. Statistics not only show a rapid increase in Windows 10 adoption but a collapse for Windows 7.
Interestingly.
This data comes from the Digital Analytics Program (http://analytics.usa.gov/) that monitors a total of 3,800 websites owned by the United States government and its agencies, in case you were curious.
And as this table by ZDNet reveals (http://www.zdnet.com/article/us-government-data-shows-windows-10-usage-climbing-as-windows-7-share-drops-sharply/), the adoption trends since the beginning of the year put Windows 10 as the top performer for 2015, while all other versions of Windows lost users:
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Good news for Microsoft, this.
Windows 7 dipped a clean 7% between Q1 2015 and November 2015, while Windows 10 managed to post a growth of 12.4% despite the fact that it only launched in late July. Windows 8.1 also lost 1.1% of its users, and was found on only 15.7% of the desktop computers that visited government websites.
In November, that is.
Another comparison shows that Windows 7 usage drops to just 48.9% during the weekends, but take out the Saturdays and Sundays, and 67.5% of the computers that access government pages are found powered by the world’s most popular operating system.
For Windows 10 this figure is the exact opposite, and 18.1% of the consumers use it on the weekends, while 10.6% of them do on weekdays.
Probably got something to do with people accessing these websites from their offices and whatnot.
But this is another confirmation that Microsoft’s latest and greatest if off to a good start.
source:windows10update