<p>According to the latest NetMarketShare stats, Windows XP gained some market share, while Windows 7 lost some in the previous month.</p>
<p>Windows 7 dropped from 49.46% of the market share to 49.04%, while Windows XP gained 1.28% jumping from 5.66% to 6.94% of market share.</p>
<div id="attachment_2183" style="width: 1379px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://www.wincert.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/netmarketshare.png"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-2183" class="wp-image-2183 size-full" title="windows xp" src="https://www.wincert.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/netmarketshare.png" alt="windows xp" width="1369" height="607" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-2183" class="wp-caption-text">Source: netmarketshare.com</p></div>
<p>This XP increase could be related to the latest ransomware virus attacks. It appears that a lot of users are using Windows XP offline and that those were plugged online to receive the latest OS patches.</p>
<p>Windows 10, Microsoft&#8217;s latest OS, has also received a small gain in market share in June, but only 0.02% that means from 26.78% to 26.80%</p>
<p>Overall, both Windows and Mac OS lost some of the shares, with Windows dropping from 91.64% to 91.55%, while Linux seemed to have regained the lost market share, increasing it from 1.99% to 2.36%.</p>