Four years after Windows 10's release, Microsoft's latest desktop OS has finally overtaken Windows 7, which Microsoft released during 2009 and will stop supporting batch that we get.

Net Market Share's December 2018 report reveals 39.22 percent within the machines by which it collects statistics use Windows 10, just prior to the 36.9 % that use Windows 7.

The cross-over happened within the month of December, though each version's share of Windows devices is actually close all through the entire year.

Fellow web analytics firm StatCounter reported Windows 10 overtaking Windows 7 last January. Each of those firms use different methodologies to count desktop marketshare as explained inside this piece by ZDNet's Ed Bott.

Another reliable source to compare and contrast desktop usage relates to the US government's analytics portal, which shows systems utilized to visit government websites.

It reports that 24.9 percent of visitors using Windows tend to be Windows 10, likened to 13.6 percent who use Windows 7. Windows 10's share of Windows consumers to .gov sites increased from 21 percent last February, while Windows 7's share has declined from 19.8 percent while in the period.

Microsoft at many point aimed for Windows 10 to be on one billion active devices by 2018, 4 seasons it would have released an essential new version been there not switched to Windows as providing service.

However, be sure you are was abandoned after it became clear it would not be achieved, to a degree due to the failure of Microsoft's Windows Phone and Nokia plans.

Microsoft's latest update on Windows 10 adoption was it to be running on just below 700 million machines, or slightly less of the 1.5 billion devices that run some sort of Windows.

Although consumer Windows products likely to be running Windows 10, recent upticks in adoption resemble coming from the enterprise. In October, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said more than half the enterprise device installed base was on Windows 10.

Meanwhile, seems Microsoft has followed its fastest-ever rollout associated with a new version of Windows 10 utilizing its slowest rollout. According to Windows-focused analytics firm AdDuplex, just 6.6 % of Windows 10 machines were with the Windows 10 October 2018 Update or version 1809 by December 28.

"October Update is exclusive throughout the background Windows 10 updates. While previous updates inevitably shoot up after a couple of weeks on the market, O18U stays lingering towards the zero axis to the chart," notes AdDuplex.

The 1809 update it goes without saying has been delayed by a data-destroying bug that prompted Microsoft to quit the update during the early October, only resuming its release in mid-November.

It consists of also been slowly releasing version 1809 to users who manually make an effort download it. As of December 17, Windows 10 1809 was "fully available" to users who decide to get the upgrade manually.