Microsoft Windows 10 Kicks Off To Strong Start As Usage Share Leaps Four Times In Three Days

Grazed from IBT.  Author: Jessica Menton.

Microsoft Corporation’s Windows 10 launch kicked off to a strong start last week, with its usage share jumping by four times in just three days, Computerworld.com reported, citing Irish metrics company StatCounter. Microsoft released Windows 10 Wednesday as a free upgrade for users who are currently using Windows 7 or Windows 8.

The increase was much larger than Microsoft’s last free upgrade of Windows 8.1 in October 2013.  The global Windows 10 usage share, a measure of how active users of the OS were on the Internet, doubled from 0.3 percent to 0.6 percent on the official launch day Wednesday, Irish metrics company StatCounter said…


By Saturday, Windows 10’s global usage share had climbed to 2.5 percent, Computerworld said.  Windows 8.1’s usage share hit 0.6 percent on the third day after its debut, a fourth worldwide of Windows 10…

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