{"id":118279,"date":"2017-06-12T17:42:38","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T15:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=118279"},"modified":"2017-06-12T17:43:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T15:43:55","slug":"windows-7-is-still-more-popular-than-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/118279-windows-7-is-still-more-popular-than-windows-10","title":{"rendered":"Windows 7 is still more popular than Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The May 2017 figures from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.netmarketshare.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>NetMarketShare<\/strong><\/a> show that Windows 7 is still the desktop operating system of choice \u2013 and has grown its user base in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>For May 2017, Windows 7 achieved an operating system market share of 49.46% \u2013 up from 48.41% in February 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Windows XP has suffered a decline, dropping from 8.45% in February to 5.66% in May.<\/p>\n<p>Windows 10 saw small growth, gaining just under 2 percentage points to move to 26.78%.<\/p>\n<p>The table below shows the top desktop operating systems by market share for May 2017.<\/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\">Operating Systems \u2013 May 2017<\/div>\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"60%\"><strong>OS<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"40%\"><strong>Market Share<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Windows 7<\/td>\n<td><strong>49.46%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Windows 10<\/td>\n<td><strong>26.78%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Windows 8.1<\/td>\n<td><strong>6.74%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Windows XP<\/td>\n<td><strong>5.66%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Mac OS X 10.12<\/td>\n<td><strong>3.59%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Linux<\/td>\n<td><strong>1.99%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Windows 8<\/td>\n<td><strong>1.59%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Mac OS X 10.11<\/td>\n<td><strong>1.32%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Mac OS X 10.10<\/td>\n<td><strong>0.87%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Windows NT<\/td>\n<td><strong>0.82%<\/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\/214958-windows-7-is-still-king-and-is-getting-more-users.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MyBroadband <\/a><\/strong>and is republished with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/214090-macos-high-sierra-announced.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">macOS High Sierra announced<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The May 2017 figures from NetMarketShare show that Windows 7 is still the desktop operating system of choice \u2013 and has grown its user base in recent months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":82038,"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":[2],"tags":[20264,15841,24595,20250,2791],"class_list":["post-118279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-20264","tag-15841","tag-netmarketshare","tag-popularity","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118279","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=118279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}