May’s Windows numbers: Windows 7 digs in

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Windows 7 last month dug in its heels, and retained control over a majority of all Windows PCs, an analytics company reported this week.

The standard enterprise operating system, Windows 7 will be shuffled onto the retired-from-support list in two and a half years, on Jan. 14, 2020.

May's Windows 7 user share -- an estimate of the percentage of the world's personal computers powered by the 2009 operating system -- was 49.5%, said metrics vendor Net Applications. However, Windows 7 ran 54% of all Windows machines: The difference between the user share of all PCs and only those running Windows stemmed from Windows powering 91.6% of the globe's personal computers, not 100%.

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