Windows 10 Version 1903 Hits Double-Digit Usage Share

Usage of the latest version of Windows 10 has hit 11.4 percent this month, according to the latest data from AdDuplex.

“Windows 10 [version 1903] has gained another 5 percent [in usage] since last month and is now on 11.4 percent of more than 100,000 PCs surveyed,” the latest AdDuplex report explains. “Interestingly, almost all of this growth seems to be coming from users upgrading from [Windows 10 version 1803] as [Windows 10 version 1809] is hovering around 30 percent steadily.”

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That is interesting. Last month, Windows 10 version account for just 6.3 percent of all Windows 10 usage, so this month’s gain almost represents a doubling of usage. But AdDuplex is right: Usage in Windows 10 version 1809 has barely moved. In May, it represented 31.3 percent of all Windows 10 usage out in the world, compared to 30 percent last month and 29.7 percent this month.

Meanwhile, Windows 10 version 1803 is the most frequently used version of the product. In May, this version accounted for 61.1 percent of all Windows 10 usage, but that figure dropped to 58 percent in June and then to 53.7 percent this month. The most widely-deployed version of Windows 10 so far is finally on the way down.

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  • wright_is

    Premium Member
    29 July, 2019 - 4:31 am

    <p>One thing to remember is that most new PCs in the channel are installed with images based on 1803 or 1809. And a lot of those don't get offered the update to 1903 – isn't there some check in Windows 10 that won't offer the upgrade in the first 30 days of use?</p><p>Frustrating for us, setting up new machines. We want them up to date and stable, we don't want them suddenly doing an upgrade after a month of use! As it is, most of the machines go onto WSUS, so that isn't an issue, but we are currently pushing new machines with 1903 out (as 19H2 will be a rollup for 19H1, it makes sense to get as many as possible on 19H1, as we won't have to upgrade them until 2021).</p>

    • madthinus

      Premium Member
      29 July, 2019 - 1:45 pm

      <blockquote><em><a href="#445737">In reply to wright_is:</a></em></blockquote><p>The out of box experience will offer you an update. </p>

      • wright_is

        Premium Member
        30 July, 2019 - 12:39 am

        <blockquote><em><a href="#445822">In reply to madthinus:</a></em></blockquote><p>Nope. I've set up about a dozen laptops since 1903 was released using hte oob experience, none of them offered an update. I had to manually install it from an ISO image.</p><p>The other PCs were installed using a 1903 custom system image using PXE-Boot.</p>

  • jchampeau

    Premium Member
    29 July, 2019 - 7:29 am

    <p>Remember that one time Android got all fragmented and there were a whole bunch of different versions in use out in the wild? I'm glad Windows isn't like that.</p>

    • Sprtfan

      29 July, 2019 - 9:55 am

      <blockquote><em><a href="#445743">In reply to jchampeau:</a></em></blockquote><p>I know you were trying to make a joke but the two are not even close to being similar. </p>

  • scarper86

    29 July, 2019 - 11:20 am

    <p>Every few weeks Windows <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">update on</span> my desktop gleefully tells me there's a new version of Windows and it chugs through the update process, gets to about 90% then freezes and reverts back to 1803. It's done this at least 4 or 5 times. My laptop updated with no problem. </p>

    • mrlinux11

      30 July, 2019 - 8:33 am

      <blockquote><em><a href="#445770">In reply to scarper86:</a></em></blockquote><blockquote><em>I had the same issue </em></blockquote><p>Does your desktop have any attached USB drives, or even phantom ones ? My Lenovo desktop had phantom drives, I had to disable USB in bios and then it upgraded fine. </p>

  • sparrow

    29 July, 2019 - 1:02 pm

    <p>I have installed 1903 three times over the last month…always with a later complication discovered…I'll stick to 1809 for now…</p><p>If you are an artist or photographer, and calibrate your screen with a physical calibrating device (e.g. Spyder, X-Rite, etc.), you may as I did, discover that 1903 has severe color management bugs…your color profiles may not be salvageable…check with your calibration hardware device manufacturer before experimenting with 1903…</p><p>I hope I save others from the mess I went through with ver. 1903 and personal color management…</p><p><br></p>

  • hrlngrv

    Premium Member
    29 July, 2019 - 2:19 pm

    <p>If MSFT is going to save words at the expense of precision by dropping <strong><em>On</em></strong><em>line</em> [edited] from the version name of Office web/browser apps, why not drop the <em>10</em> from the <em>last version of Windows</em>? Just call the current latest version Windows 1903 (as if the <em>3</em> meant anything specific).</p><p>Aside from MSFT and rabid fans, who wants 2 major upgrades per year? Certainly not MSFT's enterprise customers.</p>

  • Greg Green

    30 July, 2019 - 7:49 am

    <p>And support for half of Win 10 users (1803) ends in 4 months, unless they’re enterprise. This is not working out the way MS expected.</p>

  • digiguy

    Premium Member
    30 July, 2019 - 8:18 am

    <p>Not surprising, all my 10+ windows machines were on 1803, except my surface 3 on 1809, some upgraded finte to 1903, others said my machine it's not ready yet, which is worring since this version expires in November…</p>

  • dontbeevil

    01 August, 2019 - 2:17 pm

    <p>that's what happens when the automatic download start t have green light on more systems, but you were fast to complain against the slow adoption when was not even officially released</p>

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