In a moment of what can only be described as pure insanity, data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/tag/windows-7″ data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/tag/windows-7″>Windows 7 is gaining market share in the year 2025, five years after support for it officially ended. As of this week, data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://gs.statcounter.com/windows-version-market-share/desktop/worldwide/#monthly-202506-202509″ data-url=”https://gs.statcounter.com/windows-version-market-share/desktop/worldwide/#monthly-202506-202509″ target=”_blank” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none”>StatCounter is reporting that Windows 7 is now in use on 9.61% of Windows PCs, and that’s up from the 3.59% it had just a month ago.
For years, Windows 7 has hovered around 2% market share on StatCounter. data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/still-running-windows-7-time-to-upgrade-your-vulnerable-machine” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/still-running-windows-7-time-to-upgrade-your-vulnerable-machine”>After mainstream support ended, the last few holdouts very quickly made the move to Windows 10, but with data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-10/end-of-life-how-to-prepare-your-windows-10-pc” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-10/end-of-life-how-to-prepare-your-windows-10-pc”>support for Windows…
