Windows 10 Sets One-Month OS Adoption Record

But data also shows torrid pace has cooled since early August

Windows 10 in August set a record for a one-month increase the right of use to any operating system, a research firm said today. According to California-based Net Applications, the proportion of users of Windows 10 a measure of the number of unique users that use the operating system to go online has grown by 4.8 percentage points in August to 5.2% in the month.

A compact list of 56 large, 18 medium and 26 small organizations classified as Computerworld's.August was the first full month that Windows 10 was available to download and install for free for those with Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 PC and 2-in-1s. Microsoft has officially released the update on July 29.

Share of 4.8 points was the biggest jump User Monitoring Net Applications in 11 years has published data of users and share easily beat the set in October 2011, when Windows 7 has increased by 2.6 percentage points the previous record .
Windows 10 accounted for 5.7% of all Windows devices in August, slightly higher than the number of rights to use unnumbered Windows-based "only" 91%, not 100%, of all systems counted Net Applications. In August, the share of all the devices in Windows Windows 10 has risen by 5.3 percentage points.

This increase was another record for Windows, but it pales in comparison to the growth of 21.1 points OS X Mavericks in November 2013 as a percentage of all Macs. That month, the participation of all editions of OS X Mavericks surged almost four times the participation of all Windows PCs rose in August of Windows 10.

The disparity shows how difficult it will be for Microsoft Windows 10 to reach 1 billion Windows devices within three years. While Apple has a relatively easy to convince about 80 million Mac users to update each year, Microsoft faces a tough road because of the much larger user base of Windows and the heterogeneity of its hardware ecosystem and its customers including many companies upgrade prudent.

However, the number of devices upgraded to Windows 10 that pointed to data from Net Applications is historical: 5.7% of all Windows systems accounted for about 86 million machines, assuming a total of 1.5 million devices across Windows the world, the number that Microsoft itself retailers regularly. No other operating system has been installed at that rate.

Windows 10 is 86 million sets, of course: Last week, Microsoft said that the number is actually 75 million. But calculations based on the right to use Net Applications did three things. First, it confirmed that boast Microsoft was almost certainly accurate. Second, it reiterated that user data portion was only a guide or estimate, not a final count.

Finally, the measure of Net Applications has validated metrics Irish vendor StatCounter analysis, which followed a slowdown in the pace of upgrading to Windows 10 in recent weeks.
Last month, Net Applications provided weekly breakdown of user actions Computerworld Windows 10 that showed the new operating system adds about 4 million machines daily update at its peak during the week of August 2 to 8 when Windows 10 represented 3% of all Windows PCs.

In the three weeks from 8 August to participate all Windows PC Windows 10 it rose another 2.7%, and the device represented by 41 million, with an average daily gain of 1.8 million.
At a rate of 1.8 million per day as unlikely as it would be for Microsoft Windows 10 to maintain the goal of reaching 1 billion in the other 507 days or the end of January 2017, well before his minimum period of two years after its launch .

In other words, even if the statistics can be damned lies, Microsoft currently has a picture of what your goal 1000000000.