From InfoWorld: As expected, Windows 10's usage share growth sank after Microsoft ended the free upgrade it had offered customers for the past year.
According to analytics vendor StatCounter, Windows 10's week-over-week gains in the first two weeks of August were 0.13 and 0.15 percentage points, respectively. The increases were the smallest of any two-week span this year, with the exception of two different times -- in April, again in July -- when Windows 10's share fell from one week to the next.
If the remainder of August plays out the same as the first half, Windows 10 will post a one-month increase about a third of July's and approximately a fourth of June's.
StatCounter measures usage share, an indicator of online activity and not representative of the actual number of users running the OS.
The growth slowdown was about as certain as death and taxes: The expiration of the free upgrade meant consumers, and businesses without volume license agreements, would have to pay $110 and $200, respectively, to put Windows 10 on a PC.
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