Windows 10 books big growth spurt

Windows 10 in the last two weeks has posted its largest growth spurt since August 2015, according to data from an Irish analytics vendor.

StatCounter, which measures usage share -- a proxy for activity, but not necessarily representative of the number of devices running Windows 10 -- portrayed a large and extended string of week-over-week increases, starting around May 13 and continuing through Thursday. In the last three days -- starting Tuesday -- those gains were in excess of a percentage point, a rarity in StatCounter's Windows 10 data.

Computerworld has tracked Windows 10 growth using StatCounter's numbers since the OS's July 2015 debut by averaging the last seven days to eliminate the inevitable spikes during weekends. The results, then, show seven-day rolling averages of week-over-week changes.

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