{"id":116777,"date":"2017-04-13T12:35:22","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T10:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=116777"},"modified":"2017-04-13T12:35:22","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T10:35:22","slug":"windows-10-and-windows-7-dominate-the-desktop-os-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/116777-windows-10-and-windows-7-dominate-the-desktop-os-market","title":{"rendered":"Windows 10 and Windows 7 dominate the desktop OS market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest figures from NetMarketShare show that Windows 7 and Windows 10 completely dominate the desktop operating scene.<\/p>\n<p>The statistics for March 2017 reveal that Windows 7 and 10 had a combined market share of just under 75%.<\/p>\n<p>Windows XP is still hanging in there, placing third on 7.44%. This is despite the OS reaching <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windowsforbusiness\/end-of-xp-support\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>end of support<\/strong><\/a> over three years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Total operating system numbers placed Windows first, at 91.59% market share, with Mac second (6.27%) and Linux third (2.14%).<\/p>\n<div class=\"myg_table\">\n<div class=\"table-responsive\"><table class=\"table\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"7\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th colspan=\"2\">\n<div align=\"center\">Desktop Operating Systems<\/div>\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div align=\"center\"><strong>Desktop OS Share \u2013 Total<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"68%\">Windows<\/td>\n<td width=\"32%\"><strong>91.59%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Mac<\/td>\n<td><strong>6.27%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Linux<\/td>\n<td><strong>2.14%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div align=\"center\"><strong>Desktop OS Share \u2013 Version<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Windows 7<\/td>\n<td><strong>49.42%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Windows 10<\/td>\n<td><strong>25.36%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Windows XP<\/td>\n<td><strong>7.44%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Windows 8.1<\/td>\n<td><strong>6.66%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Mac OS X 10.12<\/td>\n<td><strong>3.22%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Linux<\/td>\n<td><strong>2.14%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Windows 8<\/td>\n<td><strong>1.57%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Mac OS X 10.11<\/td>\n<td><strong>1.46%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Mac OS X 10.10<\/td>\n<td><strong>0.93%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Windows Vista<\/td>\n<td><strong>0.72%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>This article first appeared on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/206578-windows-7-and-10-completely-dominate.html\" target=\"_blank\">MyBroadband<\/a><\/strong> and is republished with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/206406-ibms-watson-now-offers-tech-support.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">IBM\u2019s Watson now offers tech support<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest figures from NetMarketShare show that Windows 7 and Windows 10 completely dominate the desktop operating scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":108297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15371,10473,2791],"class_list":["post-116777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-market-share","tag-operating-system","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116779,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116777\/revisions\/116779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}