Microsoft's upgrade work has achieved some success

Summary: Last month Microsoft's latest desktop operating system, Windows 8 and 8.1, reached 5.88% and 10.92%, according to NetMarketShare, the Market Research Institute for Internet Technology share, and the stubborn XP share finally fell to 17.18%, Show Microsoft

Last month Microsoft's latest desktop operating system, Windows 8 and 8.1, reached 5.88% and 10.92%, according to the latest data from the Internet Technology share market research agency NetMarketShare, and the stubborn XP share finally fell to 17.18%, Show that Microsoft's upgrade work has achieved some success.

The share of Windows 8 was slightly up 0.29% from last month, while Windows 8.1 was up 4.25%, and by the end of October, the share of both had reached 16.8%, compared with 12.26% in September, and 8 in the Windows 10.15% Series at the beginning of the year. , that is, 10 months later, the promotion of 5%. So while Windows 8.1 's share first broke 10% is a symbolic event, it is not worth celebrating, considering that this version has been available for more than 1 years.

Another reason not to be happy too early is that the share of Windows 7 is still consolidated. Even a 0.34% to 53.05% rise in October, still firmly in the position of the largest desktop operating system, has grown by 5.56% per cent since January this year. Microsoft has been working for more than 1 years to promote the enterprise and personal promotion, but the share of Windows 7 is not falling, which shows that the promotion work is unsatisfactory. But yesterday, Microsoft stopped selling Windows 7 to OEMs, would it have a significant impact on the 7 version's share? This remains to be seen in the coming months.

While the backbone of Windows 7 is still strong, other, more decrepit remnants are finally fading. The new share of the Windows 8 series is basically grabbed from the hands of Vista, XP, and so on. The share of Windows Vista lost 0.25% to 2.82%, while Windows XP plunged 6.69% to 17.17%, the first time XP fell below 10 in nearly 20% years, reflecting the effect of Microsoft's halting support for XP this April. It also means that many old machines are nearing retirement. These remnants of power and the Windows 8 series are probably showing this trend.

But overall, Microsoft's desktop share has fallen slightly, with a share of 91.53% last month, 0.45% lower than in September. Second-ranked Mac OS X grew 0.67% to 7.05%, while Linux dropped 0.23% to 1.41%.