The latest figures from NetMarketShare show that Windows 7 is still the most popular desktop operating system globally.
The August 2017 statistics also reveal that iOS and Android 6.0 remain the most widely-used mobile operating systems, although an increasing number of devices are moving to Android 7.0.
Mobile OS numbers show that Android has a strong lead over iOS overall, with Windows Phone coming in third – sporting a total mobile market share of 0.81%.
NetMarketShare does not provide iOS version information, but figures from Apple’s Developer website show that 89% of iOS users were on iOS 10 and 9% were on iOS 9 as of 6 September.
The most popular operating systems on desktop and mobile platforms for August 2017 are detailed below.
Desktop Operating Systems
| Desktop OS Share | |
|---|---|
| Windows 7 | 48.43% |
| Windows 10 | 27.99% |
| Windows XP | 6.07% |
| Windows 8.1 | 6.07% |
| Mac OS X 10.12 | 3.59% |
| Linux | 3.37% |
| Windows 8 | 1.35% |
| Mac OS X 10.11 | 1.09% |
| Mac OS X 10.10 | 0.72% |
| Windows Vista | 0.46% |
Mobile Operating Systems
| Mobile OS Share – Total | |
|---|---|
| Android | 64.76% |
| iOS | 32.93% |
| Windows Phone | 0.81% |
| Symbian | 0.64% |
| Java ME | 0.59% |
| Mobile OS Share – Version | |
| iPhone | 23.88% |
| Android 6.0 | 22.19% |
| Android 5.1 | 11.59% |
| Android 7.0 | 10.50% |
| iPad | 9.00% |
| Android 4.4 | 8.60% |
| Android 5.0 | 4.33% |
| Android | 1.98% |
| Android 4.2 | 1.66% |
| Android 7.1 | 1.33% |
| Android 4.1 | 0.99% |
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