The same can be said for Windows 8 -> Windows 10. But that's mostly because Vista and 8 were exceptional low points. You can even empirically show that by how

The same can be said for Windows 8 -> Windows 10. But that's mostly because Vista and 8 were exceptional low points. You can even empirically show that by how abysmally bad their sales were. According to [1], Vista peaked at 25% market share (of Windows installations), when XP still had >70% and Windows 7 was just releasing. Windows 8 (including 8.1) similarly peaked at around 25% right before the release of Windows 10, at a time where Windows 7 held 65% market share, with the rest going to XP. Statista tells a similar story [2] [3] 1: https://windowsreport.com/windows-market-share-history/ https://windowsreport.com/windows-market-share-history/ 2: https://www.statista.com/chart/4225/windows-market-share-by-version/ https://www.statista.com/chart/4225/windows-market-share-by-... 3: https://www.statista.com/statistics/993868/worldwide-windows-operating-system-market-share/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/993868/worldwide-windows...