Microsoft may have used its Ignite conference to trumpet Windows 10 now running on 400 million devices, but the operating system's market share went backwards in September according to two of three traffic-watchers we track each month.
StatCounter Global Stats has Windows 10 at 24.42 per cent desktop OS market share for September, down just .01 per cent from its August share. Netmarketshare recorded a sharper dip, from August's 22.99 per cent to a September reading of 22.53 per cent.
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I think one of the main reason that Windows 10 marketshare drop is that a lot of users are going back to school or work which mostly use Windows 7 computers, and their work laptop or PC at home maybe running Windows 7, so users can use programs which were mainly designed for Windows 7.
Some schools and colleges are also using Chromebooks, and Linux computers instead of Windows because of the cheaper price of Chromebooks, and Linux PCs. The increasing amount of Chromebook and Linux users are causing Windows 10 to lose market share.
A lot of professional and richer users are now using Apple computers which may cause Windows 10 market share to drop a little bit.
There are also some users who decided to rollback their computer to Windows 7 and 8.1 because Windows 10 may not be good enough for their needs, or they found out some software and hardware like a printer, scanner, video card, etc did not work in Windows 10.
StatCounter Global Stats has Windows 10 at 24.42 per cent desktop OS market share for September, down just .01 per cent from its August share. Netmarketshare recorded a sharper dip, from August's 22.99 per cent to a September reading of 22.53 per cent.
Read More
I think one of the main reason that Windows 10 marketshare drop is that a lot of users are going back to school or work which mostly use Windows 7 computers, and their work laptop or PC at home maybe running Windows 7, so users can use programs which were mainly designed for Windows 7.
Some schools and colleges are also using Chromebooks, and Linux computers instead of Windows because of the cheaper price of Chromebooks, and Linux PCs. The increasing amount of Chromebook and Linux users are causing Windows 10 to lose market share.
A lot of professional and richer users are now using Apple computers which may cause Windows 10 market share to drop a little bit.
There are also some users who decided to rollback their computer to Windows 7 and 8.1 because Windows 10 may not be good enough for their needs, or they found out some software and hardware like a printer, scanner, video card, etc did not work in Windows 10.
