{"id":83421,"date":"2015-11-12T13:00:50","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T11:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=83421"},"modified":"2015-11-12T13:58:02","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T11:58:02","slug":"more-steam-users-are-already-using-windows-10-than-windows-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/83421-more-steam-users-are-already-using-windows-10-than-windows-8","title":{"rendered":"More Steam users are already using Windows 10 than Windows 8"},"content":{"rendered":"

October\u2019s Steam Hardware Survey<\/a> results have gone live, and rather than navigating directly to GPU and CPU popularity as we usually do, we paid attention to operating system (OS) popularity instead.<\/p>\n

After Microsoft announced that more than 110 million devices were running Windows 10<\/a> in October, we\u2019ve had little cause to doubt just how pervasive Windows 10 is becoming.<\/p>\n

Even the promise of advertising<\/a> localised to your Start Menu and app store hasn\u2019t stifled its growth, and Steam\u2019s latest survey results show that gamers are as much a part of that growth as anyone else.<\/p>\n

According to Steam\u2019s survey, Windows 10 64-bit is already the second most popular OS for users the digital distribution platform. In fact, it\u2019s grown by as much as 2.43% in a single month, a comparatively massive swing when compared to the change registered for not only OS\u2019 but very nearly everything measured by Steam.<\/p>\n

Most changes are sub 0.09%, so you know Windows 10 is making waves. It\u2019s actually just under 9% ahead of Windows 8 64-bit, an operating system that\u2019s been in use for 3 years now.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s no surprise that so many have migrated to Windows 10, particularly if you were on Windows 8. For all intents and purposes, Windows 10 is just a superior, more polished and better thought out Windows 8, so it makes a lot of sense to move.<\/p>\n

It\u2019ll be harder to convince gamers to leave Windows 7, but DirectX 12\u2019s reliance on Windows 10, as well as the advantages it grants to Xbox One owners<\/a> are all legitimate reasons to eventually move.<\/p>\n

Heck, you can\u2019t even use an Xbox One wireless controller on your PC unless you have Windows 10 installed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And, of course, Microsoft will soon be downloading their latest OS to your PC whether you like it or not<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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October\u2019s Steam Hardware Survey results have gone live, and it demonstrates a rather large swing in Windows 10’s favour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":83425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8477,91,1969,15397,85,697,13009,5088],"class_list":["post-83421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-hardware-survey","tag-microsoft","tag-news-2","tag-pc","tag-steam","tag-valve","tag-windows-10","tag-windows-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83421","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\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}