Windows by the numbers: Windows 10 continues to cannibalize Windows 7

Windows 10 last month continued to shove its ancestor out into traffic so it can steal Windows 7’s share.

According to analytics vendor Net Applications, Windows 10’s share of all personal computers climbed 1.4 percentage points – the third straight month of a gain of more than a point – and reached 52.4% in September. Windows 10’s part of all Windows PCs, meanwhile, climbed to almost 61%, the first time the OS cracked the 60% mark.

(The percentage of Windows PCs is larger than the percentage of all personal computers because Windows does not power every PC. In September, Windows ran 86% of the world’s machines. All but a tiny bit of the rest ran macOS, Linux or Chrome OS.)

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