{"id":85897,"date":"2016-02-03T16:30:36","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T14:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=85897"},"modified":"2016-02-03T16:36:21","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T14:36:21","slug":"windows-10-has-nearly-overtaken-windows-7-as-the-os-of-choice-for-steam-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/85897-windows-10-has-nearly-overtaken-windows-7-as-the-os-of-choice-for-steam-users","title":{"rendered":"Windows 10 has nearly overtaken Windows 7 as the OS of choice for Steam users"},"content":{"rendered":"

During our report<\/a> on Steam\u2019s monthly hardware and software survey for June 2015, a piece we wrote primarily to talk about the prevalence of higher-end gaming hardware (like the GTX 970), we noted that Windows 7 was still the most popular OS for Steam users.<\/p>\n

Sitting at 46.88%, Windows 7 was firmly on the top, but Windows 10\u2019s subsequent release has seen that number drop significantly.<\/p>\n

As early as October 2015, Windows 7 had fallen to just 36.67%, with Windows 10 already holding a comfortable lead over Windows 8<\/a> \u2013 hardly surprising given that Windows 10 was already installed on more than 53 million devices by August of last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And it looks like Windows 7 will continue to drop, sitting at 34.31% Steam share, just 1.54% more than Windows 10.<\/p>\n

\"Steam<\/a><\/p>\n

Given that Windows 10 is free, promises improved performance over Windows 7 and 8, will be the only OS to officially support next-gen CPUs<\/a> and that it\u2019s the only way to use DirectX 12, it\u2019s probably the wisest choice for a great deal of gamers \u2013 minus a few iffy decisions on Microsoft\u2019s behalf<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Beyond the increasing use of Windows 10, Steam\u2019s survey demonstrates that the GTX 970\u2019s popularity has continued to grow<\/a>, even managing to overtake Intel\u2019s most popular integrated graphics solutions, the HD Graphics 4000 series.<\/p>\n

And that iGPU family is in practically everything, so it\u2019s darn impressive of NVIDIA\u2019s card, a roughly R6000 card, to outdo a cheap-as-chips iGPU.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re so proud of you gamers; you\u2019re making the smart choice when it comes to hardware.<\/p>\n

And there Intel is, trying to convince us to use their integrated GPUs over discrete GPUs<\/a>. No. Thank. You.<\/p>\n

\n

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Steam’s latest hardware and software survey shows that Windows 10 is about to overtake Windows 7’s lead as the most used OS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":85903,"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":[10473,13906,85,13009,3960,5088],"class_list":["post-85897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-operating-system","tag-os","tag-steam","tag-windows-10","tag-windows-7","tag-windows-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85897","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=85897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}