67% of Steam users are now on Windows 10
The rise of Windows 10 as the Steam players prefered choice has been a slog as Windows 7 usage pestered Microsoft’s adoption hopes as it held a favorable share for close to 37 months.
While Steam players only make up a portion of the total Windows 10 usage, and as of last month and Windows 10 market share had yet to peek 40% worldwide, Microsoft’s latest OS still holds roughly 95% of the Steam/PC gaming market in its grasps. The other 5% gaming not done on a Windows based rig is being captured by largely by OSX at 3.27% and various distros of Linux combining for 0.82%.
Today’s news is a promising development for the company’s future efforts in consolidating its gaming services, hardware and platforms. With Windows 10 being installed on close to 800 million devices, Microsoft soft is setting itself up to have one of largest install base for a gaming platform in history.
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ScxttPosted:
Windows 10 was horrible to begin with, but once windows 7 support is discontinued then the percentage will be higher
XeCookiePosted:
After windows 7 windows 10 is obv the best I see once win7 gets disontinued for support win10 should blow up even more.
CTVPosted:
Windows 10 had a horrible start for capatability with games such as minecraft ect. But to now see it's the most used is kinda good to see.
C4Posted:
coolbunny1234 This isn't surprising news considering most Steam users are gamers using the most up to date software.
Also the fact that Microsoft announced they will no longer being providing support for Windows 7
coolbunny1234Posted:
This isn't surprising news considering most Steam users are gamers using the most up to date software.
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