Recent stats show Windows 7 growth exceeds Windows 10’s

Microsoft’s big Windows 10 giveaway is over, and with it, interest in the new operating system. The latest numbers from netmarketshare.com show that growth in the number of Windows 10 devices has slowed to a crawl. Windows 7 growth in the last month or so is actually higher than for Windows 10.

To see the numbers on netmarketshare.com, select Operating Systems > Desktop Share by Version from the drop-down lists under Market Share Reports.

Thanks to Microsoft’s rules, it’s no longer possible to buy a new PC with any version of Windows other than 10. But Windows 7 and 8.1 are still available, so if you don’t mind installing Windows from scratch, you still have options.

Windows 7 will continue to receive support – and security updates – from Microsoft until January 14, 2020. Windows 8 will be supported until January 10, 2023. See the official Windows lifecycle fact sheet for details.

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Jeff Rivett has worked with and written about computers since the early 1980s. His first computer was an Apple II+, built by his father and heavily customized. Jeff's writing appeared in Computist Magazine in the 1980s, and he created and sold a game utility (Ultimaker 2, reviewed in the December 1983 Washington Apple Pi Journal) to international markets during the same period. Proceeds from writing, software sales, and contract programming gigs paid his way through university, earning him a Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) degree at UWO. Jeff went on to work as a programmer, sysadmin, and manager in various industries. There's more on the About page, and on the Jeff Rivett Consulting site.

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