Windows 10 adoption slows to a crawl

Joe Belfiore, Microsoft Corporate Vice President of Operating Systems Group, demonstrates Continuum for phones at the Microsoft Build conference in San Francisco, Wednesday, April 29, 2015. While Microsoft has already previewed some aspects of the new Windows 10, a parade of top executives will use the conference to demonstrate more software features and app-building tools, with an emphasis on mobile devices as well as PCs. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

USA – When Microsoft launched Windows 10 last year, the company made no bones about its intention for the OS to replace all previous versions. It only took a few months for the release to speed past 120 million installs — but it seems that adoption has slowed since then.

New data released by NetMarketShare suggests that Windows 10 is struggling to keep pace as it continues to expand its user base. As of April 2016, some 14.35 percent of computers use Windows 10 as a primary OS, according to a report from Beta News.

That figure sounds good for an OS that launched last year, but it’s the month-on-month progress that Microsoft might find more troubling. From January to February of this year, its market share jumped almost one percent; between March to April this had dropped to just 0.2 percent, reflecting a broad decline in pace.(digitaltrend)…[+]