Everyone knows that Microsoft will completely end support for Windows 10 systems in a few days. This makes many users who are still holding on dissatisfied. Microsoft has given users in Europe one year of free ESU maintenance as compensation. While Windows 10 is coming to the end of its lifespan, a survey in the past two days showed that the share of Windows 7 suddenly rose against the trend.According to statistics from Statcounter, Windows 7’s market share increased significantly to 9.61% in September.Back to the level before January 2023 (Microsoft ended the extended security update program).
In July, Windows 7's share was only 0.88%, and in August it was 3.35%. This share in September means that Windows 7's share has soared 10 times in 2 months. Many people believe that this is affected by the discontinuation of support for Windows 10.
However, this result is not like this. In fact, this should be a bug in the Statcounter statistics. The windowslatest website published an article introducing this situation and explaining the cause of the error.
Statcounter counts website views, not actual operating system installations, Windows 7The surge in September was supposedly caused by a reduction in user agents for the Chromium browser, with data mistakenly identifying some obscure Win builds as Windows 7 systems.
This problem may also be related to crawler programs, which use old systems to disguise themselves, which will also lead to a large increase in the number of Windows 7 systems being recognized.
In short, at this point in time in 2025, it is impossible for Windows 7's share to increase significantly. Not to mention that many people don't know where to download the ISO installation. The driver problem alone is enough to cause trouble, because many programs no longer support Windows 7, Steam has stopped supporting it, and drivers from AMD, NVIDIA, and Intel no longer support Windows 7 systems. If it is newer hardware, it is impossible to install the driver.
This is not to say that no one is using Windows 7 now. Many old platforms may still be running Windows 7, but the number of these users may only decrease a little bit, and there is no possibility of a surge in the current environment.