Given these trends, it seems likely that Windows 10 will be able to reach over 50% market share by 2020, making the new OS dominant within the market. Over the past year Window's 10's market share has increased by almost 10% while Windows 7 has lost over 5% of its market share. With Microsoft's plan being to update Windows 10 over time, rather than replace it with a new iteration within the next few years, it seems likely that Microsoft will be able to achieve this goal, especially as the use of Windows 7 continues to decline. Windows 10's use has been growing over the past few years, capitalising on the decline of Microsoft's older operating systems like Windows 8/8.1, 7 and XP, though the OS is still a long way off 50% market penetration.
Despite the OS' lack of security support, Windows XP still has 3.36% market share, a decrease of 2.36% since this time last year, though this remains a concerning figure given how many security holes are unpatched on the OS. Windows 7 remains widely used, with 41.86% market share, with Windows 8.1 being a far away 3rd place with 8.72% of the market. Other operating systems such as Mac and Linux claimed 7.02% and 1.66% share, respectively.It's official, Windows 10 is now Microsoft's most used OS, surpassing Windows 7 in terms of market share globally, controlling 42.78% of the global market as of January 2018. Overall, Windows claimed over 91.3% share of the OS market, down 0.07% compared to November. It's worth mentioning that all versions except Windows 10 saw a dip in their share last month. Among other older versions, Windows 8.1, 8, Vista, and XP now have a market share of 10.3%, 2.76%, 1.62%, and 10.93%, respectively. Windows 7 is still the most popular Windows OS with close to 56% market share. For those who aren't in the know, the rise in Windows 10's share has been around 1% for past few months now. Given the fact that the OS' market share rose 1.06% in the October-November period, the growth seems to have slowed down, although only a little. That's an increase of just under 1% from November, when the share was exact 9%. Launched around five months ago, Windows 10 now claims nearly 10% (9.96% to be exact) of the desktop OS market share, according to latest data from market research firm Net Applications.
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