Microsoft shows Windows 10 market share growing steadily, but the numbers are fake

Microsoft’s own Windows 10 share numbers have always seemed a little, well, generous. While NetMarketShare’s OS usage share figures show the new operating system doing fine, but lagging some distance behind Windows 7 (as you'd expect), Microsoft’s figures paint an entirely different picture. Five months ago, the software giant showed Windows 10 hitting 50 percent in the US, and two months ago, it had the new OS overtaking Windows 7 globally. Today’s update though stretches the believability just a little too far. SEE ALSO: Windows 10 enters 2017 not with a bang, but a whimper Unlike NetMarketShare which updates its… [Continue Reading]