Windows 10 marketshare is stagnating

The Register compiled operating system marketshare statistics from three sources and comes to the conclusion that the marketshare of Windows 10 is stagnating. We've now had a full quarter since the free Windows 10 upgrade offer expired on July 29th, 2016 and the adoption of Windows 10 seems to have ceased while the decline of Windows 7 has halted.

But with the PC market still in the doldrums - even the northern hemisphere back-to-school buying season did not delivery a buying spike - Windows 10's boom days look to be behind it. That it's now the only game in town should help it to keep growing and Microsoft will continue to have lovely numbers to spruik. But enthusiasm for the OS looks to have drained away.

Here's the full overview. NetMarketShare and StatCounter use broad traffic sources while Analytics.usa.gov focuses exclusively on traffic to US government websites.