Win10 free upgrade credit? Win8 market share first super XP

Computer Store News: Since Windows 10 will be officially released on July 29 this year, Microsoft is also doing its best to encourage users to upgrade this new system, including placing the Win10 upgrade prompt icon in the taskbar in the lower right corner of the system. At the same time, the global share of Windows 8 also reached 16.02% in June, the highest in history.

Microsoft is offering a Windows 10 upgrade for Windows 8 users for free, and will pre-load the Win10 upgrade package for users before July 29. It is expected that there will be millions of devices from Win7. /8 Updated to Win10. Microsoft also released a statement that their goal is to have 1 billion devices running Windows 10 in three years, which means that Windows 8 will soon disappear from the market.

Based on feedback from business users, most companies choose to stick to Win7 without upgrading Win8. Since enterprise users are usually the slowest upgrade group, the main installed capacity of Win8 is still distributed among the general consumer groups, so the Windows 8 installed rate will likely evaporate faster than Windows XP or Win7.

A noteworthy phenomenon this month is that the Windows 8 share has finally surpassed Windows XP. The latter has existed for more than a decade, and despite the loss of official support, corporate and military users are willing to pay large maintenance costs for Microsoft protection.

Windows 7 is still the most widely used operating system in the world, and Microsoft is worried that the Free Upgrade policy will not convince Win7 users to upgrade Win10. Many people see the popularity of Win7 as a copy of Windows XP, which means that Win7 will survive for a long time.

It is very curious to know how fast Win10's market share will grow after the official release. There are statistics showing that 0.16% of PCs worldwide have Win10 installed. We believe that the free upgrade and preloading system strategy and the “big fan” advertising will help Microsoft quickly achieve the installed goal of one billion devices!

Of course, from the data analysis, for Win7 The /Win8.1 share has increased significantly, and the Windows 10 free upgrade policy may have contributed. But whether this part of the new users can be converted into Win10 users, but also continue to pay attention to the future market performance of Win10 to draw conclusions.