{"id":122493,"date":"2017-12-05T15:15:14","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T13:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=122493"},"modified":"2017-12-05T15:16:54","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T13:16:54","slug":"windows-7-dominates-among-pc-gamers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/122493-windows-7-dominates-among-pc-gamers","title":{"rendered":"Windows 7 dominates among PC gamers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steam\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/hwsurvey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Hardware &amp; Software Survey<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0for November 2017 shows that PC gamers love Windows 7.<\/p>\n<p>The report reveals that Windows 7 was by far the most popular operating system on the platform, with 69.89% market share.<\/p>\n<p>The report also showed that its market share increased last month, up 6.67%, while Windows 10 lost 4.97%.<\/p>\n<p>The table below from Steam details the most popular operating systems on Steam, with Windows taking an overall share of 98.33%.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/OS.jpg\" data-slb-active=\"1\" data-slb-asset=\"328444065\" data-slb-internal=\"0\" data-slb-group=\"slb\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-240788 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/OS-640x417.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/OS-640x417.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/OS-600x391.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/OS.jpg 690w\" alt=\"OS\" width=\"640\" height=\"417\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cryptocurrency\/240746-cryptokitties-is-the-most-widely-used-ethereum-app.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">CryptoKitties is the most widely-used Ethereum app<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steam\u2019s\u00a0Hardware &#038; Software Survey\u00a0for November 2017 shows that PC gamers love Windows 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":108223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[807,85,2791],"class_list":["post-122493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-pc-gaming","tag-steam","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122493","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=122493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}