AdDuplex: Windows 10 version 1909 now on 22.6% of Windows 10 devices

[Karlston]

AdDuplex: Windows 10 version 1909 now on 22.6% of Windows 10 devices

Advertising platform AdDuplex has released its latest report on the market share of different versions of Windows 10. The data in the report is gathered from 5,000 Microsoft Store apps that use the company's AdDuplex SDK v.2 or higher, and it was collected over the course of the day on February 24.

 

After the reports took a bit of a hiatus last year, AdDuplex is back on its monthly schedule, so we can compare the growth directly to last month's report. The Windows 10 November 2019 Update is now on 22.6% of Windows 10 devices, a nearly 50% growth from last month's 15.2%. As Windows 10 version 1809 nears the end of support, more machines are being automatically updated to the latest version of Windows 10, supporting this growth.

This also explains why most of the growth has come at the expense of version 1809, which dropped from 22% usage to 16.4%. Meanwhile, version 1903 - also known as the May 2019 Update - has only gone down slightly, from 53.4% to 52.6%. Older updates already have a pretty low install base, and changes are minor: the April 2018 Update is down from 5.6% to 2.9%, and the Fall Creators Update dropped from 1.3% to 1.2%.

 

We also get to take a look at the pace at which the latest update is rolling out to users, and it's clear that it's a little slower, even compared to the May 2019 Update. Unless your current Windows 10 version is nearing the end of support, you won't get updates automatically, which explains the slower growth.

This time around, AdDuplex hasn't included information about usage of Surface devices, though it's unlikely the scenario has changed dramatically since last month.

 

 

Source: AdDuplex: Windows 10 version 1909 now on 22.6% of Windows 10 devices (Neowin)

[Ryrynz]

Looks like long gone are the days of hitting 80% market share for a particular build within a few months. I'd expect things to look more like the 1909 roll out going forward.

Dat 1809 update though.. 🙃

[steven36]

The Ghost of Windows 10 Past shrinks back as Microsoft's axeman tiptoes ever closer

 

 

A fresh set of usage figures has the notorious Windows 10 October 2018 Update withering on the Redmond vine as uptake of November's jumped-up patchfest climbs.

 

There was good news today for pretty much everyone as Microsoft's disastrous 1809 update for Windows 10 saw its usage drop from 22 per cent in January to a mere 16.4 per cent in February, according to figures released by ad-slinger AdDuplex.

 

Over the 90,000 PCs surveyed by AdDuplex, last year's March update continued to top the leaderboard, although the November update strode from 15.2 per cent to 22.6 per cent. The data is culled from the 5,000 Windows Store apps that run the company's SDK and, in the absence of official stats from Microsoft itself, are a handy pointer to where things are at.

 

Support for 1809 for most editions is due to come to an end on 12 May 2020, and we really can't see any sort of life extension being granted. Support for the previous edition, 1803, ended in November last year for all but Enterprise, Education and IoT Enterprise license owners, but it still commands just under 5 per cent of PCs surveyed.

 

1809 might, of course, linger a little longer. Known also as the Windows 10 2019 Long Term Servicing Channel (LTSC), enterprises can keep getting mainstream support for the OS until 2024, with the plug finally being pulled on 9 January 2029. As a reminder, 1809 was infamously re-released on 13 November 2018 after a catastrophic debut and "support dates have been adjusted accordingly".

 

The figures are evidence that, following the hubris of 1809, a more cautious hand is at the Windows 10 tiller these days. Recent releases (particularly the November 2019 Update) have not been rammed with features that the majority of users neither know nor care about. This trend looks set to continue with the next update, due in the coming weeks, which includes a tweaked Linux kernel to please some developers, but otherwise is mostly free of the fripperies that blighted the operating system in previous years.

 

And that cautious approach has extended to the release cycle – the hysteria in 2018 that saw 1803 (the April 2018 Update) garner nearly 90 per cent of the survey are long gone. A slow, more measured rollout of updates on which users have the option of slamming the brakes means that any one version of Windows 10 is unlikely to trouble the 60 per cent mark before the next update arrives.

 

Things will start getting a tad more interesting again when Windows 10X finally puts in an appearance.

 

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