There’s both good and bad news for Microsoft as Windows 10 finally becomes a paid-for operating system. The good news is that the Redmond company’s latest OS has finished its year-long period of free availability with just over 21% of the desktop market. And the bad news?
This slice – 21.13%, to be more exact – taken by Windows 10 and recorded by NetMarketShare remains, according to the same source, far less than that of Windows 7, which ended July with a 47.01% chunk of the desktop market. This doesn’t reflect particularly well on Windows 10, considering that Windows 7 was one of only two versions of Windows – the other was 8.1 – from which it was freely available.
It’s not entirely clear why so many Windows 7 users have long resisted the offer of free Windows 10. However, possible remaining high satisfaction with Windows 7, one of the best-received Windows versions of recent times, along with privacy concerns regarding Windows 10 could have played some part.
