Windows by the numbers: No dog days for Windows 10

Windows 10 rediscovered its appetite for share last month as it grew to represent almost 70% of all instances of Microsoft’s OS.

According to U.S. metrics vendor Net Applications, Windows 10 grew by 1.2 percentage points to reach 60.6% of global operating system share in August, accounting for 69.6% of all Windows editions. As usual, the second number is the more important of the two; August’s was 1.4 points higher than July’s.

Windows 10’s percentage of only Windows PCs (that’s the 69.6%) was larger than the percentage of all personal computers (the 60.6%), because Windows does not power every system. In August, Windows was the OS of slightly fewer than 87% of the world’s personal computers, down just half of one-tenth of a point from July. Of the remaining 13%, all but four-tenths of a percentage point ran macOS, Linux or Chrome OS.

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