The May 2017 figures from NetMarketShare show that Windows 7 is still the desktop operating system of choice – and has grown its user base in recent months.
For May 2017, Windows 7 achieved an operating system market share of 49.46% – up from 48.41% in February 2017.
Windows XP has suffered a decline, dropping from 8.45% in February to 5.66% in May.
Windows 10 saw small growth, gaining just under 2 percentage points to move to 26.78%.
The table below shows the top desktop operating systems by market share for May 2017.
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Operating Systems – May 2017
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| OS | Market Share |
| Windows 7 | 49.46% |
| Windows 10 | 26.78% |
| Windows 8.1 | 6.74% |
| Windows XP | 5.66% |
| Mac OS X 10.12 | 3.59% |
| Linux | 1.99% |
| Windows 8 | 1.59% |
| Mac OS X 10.11 | 1.32% |
| Mac OS X 10.10 | 0.87% |
| Windows NT | 0.82% |
This article first appeared on MyBroadband and is republished with permission.
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