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Didn't take long....

Per the article in Computerworld:

 

Windows 10's usage share closes in on OS X's

Increases in Windows 10's usage share have slowed significantly since the first full week after its July 29 debut.

 Credit: Data: StatCounter

Nears the Mac's operating system even as growth slows

 

 

Less than four weeks after its official release, Microsoft's Windows 10 has come close to -- but has yet to surpass -- the global usage share of Apple's OS X, the only significant rival to Microsoft's family of operating systems, new data shows.

  
The gap between Windows 10 and OS X yesterday was larger than on Saturday, when the difference was about eight-tenths of a percentage point, the smallest this month. Both OS X and Windows 10 go through weekly cycles, with the former typically peaking on Tuesday and the latter on Sunday.

But continued growth of Windows 10, the different cycles notwithstanding, should push the new OS's usage share above OS X's within the next week, two at the outside.

That's not a shock: Windows 10, even though new, has a much larger potential user base than does OS X, which runs only on Apple's own Mac notebooks and desktops. Microsoft regularly touts the figure of 1.5 billion when talking about the number of devices that run Windows worldwide; Apple's last announced number of in-use Macs was 80 million.

Windows 10's usage share picked up momentum on Saturday, Aug. 22, after several days of either no gains or only small increases. Even so, the new operating system's growth has slowed from its earlier torrid pace.

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Gains over the weekend's two days, for example, were smaller than the weekend prior: While the week-over-week increases on Aug. 15 and Aug. 16 were 1.7 and 1.2 percentage points, respectively, week-over-week measurements on Aug. 22 and Aug. 23 were only 0.6 and 0.7 percentage points.

For the week Aug. 17-23, Windows 10's global usage share was 6.1%, an increase over the prior week that was less than half that of the gains posted by the week Aug. 10-16.

 



It is near the end of the end....

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Makes sense really. Paid windows doesn't even take all that long to relatively reach OS X+ levels so free windows certainly wont

Still pretty good tho



                  

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OS X users must use the iphones or ipads for net surfing... Or, they are too busy working to pay for their Apple products to surf the net!



It is near the end of the end....

Landguy said:
OS X users must use the iphones or ipads for net surfing... Or, they are too busy working to pay for their Apple products to surf the net!

Do you even know the difference between OSX and iOS?



Windows 8.1 recommends me about 5 times a day to get my free copy of win 10, so that's not surprising.



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WolfpackN64 said:
Landguy said:
OS X users must use the iphones or ipads for net surfing... Or, they are too busy working to pay for their Apple products to surf the net!

Do you even know the difference between OSX and iOS?

Did you ever notice that most Apple users seem to have more than one apple product?  I was connecting someone who has an Apple computer/laptop to their ownership of an iphone or ipad or both...  So, the point was, they do work on their OSX computer/Laptop and save their internet surfing to their phones and tablets.  If that was the case, they wouldn't use OSX for net surfing too much.

The intent was a mild joke...



It is near the end of the end....

I don't think this is surprising to anyone.

Windows 10 is great and free for many.



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Yet here I am saving to upgrade my Macbook to a 15" Macbook Pro. Though I'll likely wait until the 2016 one, since there are rumors it'll come in gold!



'Bout time Microsoft jumped on the free OS bandwagon.




8th gen predictions. (made early 2014)
PS4: 60-65m
WiiU: 30-35m
X1: 30-35m
3DS: 80-85m
PSV: 15-20m

That's nice, But MS is gonna have to pay me a lot of money to go back to using a windows computer.