The latest data from AdDuplex shows that the Creators Update is now on 72.5 percent of Windows 10 PCs. But that’s still shy of the 91.2 percent figure from the Anniversary Update after the same time period.
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Here’s what we see this month.
Creators Update gains again. As you might expect, the Creators Update saw another nice monthly gain, in this case of 7.5 percent over August. But as noted, its 72.5 percent usage share of all Windows 10 versions still falls short of Anniversary Update usage after the same amount of time had elapsed in 2016. And Anniversary Update usage remains pretty high, at 23.2 percent, given that the next update is less than a month away.
Creators Update usage varies by country. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Creators Update deployment varies by country. In the US, for example, it has hit 77.6 percent of Windows 10 PCs. But the Creators Update is running on 81.8 percent of PCs in Denmark, 85.7 percent of PCs in Zambia, and 79.5 percent in Iceland. In other countries, we see the reverse, with several still under 50 percent.
Top PC makers list is unchanged. HP remains the number one maker of Windows 10 PCs in use, with 25.2 percent usage share. Dell (16.1 percent), Lenovo (12.4), ASUS (9) and Acer (8.8) round out the top five. Microsoft is in 8th place with 2.8 percent usage share. (That’s about 14 million Surface PCs running Windows 10.)
Surface Laptop lags behind new Surface Pro. Contrary to my opinion about the Surface Laptop, it is being outsold handily by the new Surface Pro. Worldwide, 5.8 percent of Surface devices are the new Surface Pro, compared to just 1.7 percent for Surface Laptop. The US figures are similar: 4.4 percent for the new Surface Pro vs. 1.4 percent for Surface Laptop.
skane2600
<p>So the Surface Laptop has 1.7 percent of the 2.8 percent of the Windows 10 devices made by MS, while all Windows 10 devices have less than 40% of the total Windows market. </p>
skane2600
<blockquote><a href="#181686"><em>In reply to Stokkolm:</em></a></blockquote><p>I guess you're right. In any case, the significant point remains, the Surface Laptop has a very tiny share of the Surface market which in turn has a tiny share of the Windows 10 market which in turn has a minority share of the overall Windows market.</p>
skane2600
<blockquote><a href="#183506"><em>In reply to hrlngrv:</em></a></blockquote><p>0.000476%. </p>
skane2600
<blockquote><a href="#183517"><em>In reply to skane2600:</em></a></blockquote><p>So I was I voted down because somebody thanks my math is wrong or because my math is right?</p>
skane2600
<blockquote><a href="#183580"><em>In reply to BillBecker:</em></a></blockquote><p>You're right. it's .000476 or .0476%. I didn't multiply by 100 to properly make it a percentage. But regardless of my goof, it's still a very tiny percentage. </p>
skane2600
<blockquote><a href="#183724"><em>In reply to hrlngrv:</em></a></blockquote><p>I think there's a lot of "hand-waving" in your analysis, but in any case, Surface Laptops are in competition with all PCs, not just with devices that MS sells.</p>
skane2600
<blockquote><a href="#183842"><em>In reply to hrlngrv:</em></a></blockquote><p>If the Surface laptop is currently the only Windows 10S machine you can buy, it has to be the most expensive no matter what the price. We'll have to see how well the low-end machines do when they are available, but I don't see much advantage over a Chromebook. People could upgrade to Pro, but If the low-end market is supposed to compete with Chromebooks on simplicity and safety, upgrading to Windows Pro just erases those goals. </p>