Windows 10 usage off to a fast start, Edge not so much
Now that Windows 10 is a full month old, usage statistics from firms like StatCounter and NetApplications are starting to roll in. So far, there’s good news and bad news.
Thanks to Microsoft’s free upgrade offer for consumers running Windows 7 and higher, Windows 10 usage is booming. StatCounter found that Windows 10 already accounts for 4.88 percent of worldwide Internet usage. By comparison, Windows 7 only reached 4.05 percent usage during its debut six years ago, and Windows 8 only achieved 1 percent of usage.
In the United States and United Kingdom, the gap in early adoption between Windows 10 and previous versions is even wider, as you can see in the chart above.
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