Windows 10 market share hit 33.21% in March 2018, down from 34.6% in February 2018, a drop of 1.39%.

I like stats, but quite how they are measured is a mystery to me, particularly when Statcounter’s figures couldn’t be more different than those published by TechRepublic in this article: Since that time Windows 7 has remained stoically popular, as has Windows 8 for reasons that I still cannot fathom. – Bill Gates, Microsoft chairman and chief executive officer, 1980Īnd it’s no coincidence that Windows 10 followed hot on the heels of Satya Nadella’s appointment as Microsoft CEO in 2014, himself being an experienced technician, in stark contrast to Steve Ballmer’s brash salesman approach.The ever so unpopular Metro tiled interface was given a welcome makeover among many other improvements, and as DCT writer Jim Hillier pointed out in his July 2015 article, 3 Burning Questions Microsoft Needs to Clarify about Windows 10, Windows 10 became a service. “A computer on every desk and in every home.”

Most of us know the 33 year history of Microsoft Windows by now and with one or two forced errors down the years, in my opinion the launch of Windows 10 in 2015 became a defining moment for the world’s favourite computer operating system.

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