Steam gamers are looking at what Windows 10 has to offer

Jan 6, 2015 13:58 GMT  ·  By

Windows 10 is already up for grabs in testing form, and despite the fact that Microsoft warned that users should only install it on secondary PCs or virtual machines, it appears that many actually deployed it on their main computers.

At this point, plenty of those running Steam on their computers are also running Windows 10, not necessarily because they want to test the gaming performance of the new operating system, but mostly because they want to see what it has to offer to desktop users.

Windows 10 adoption on the Steam platform grew so much in late 2014 that in December the technical preview reached a share of 0.32 percent, which means that it had almost the same number of users as Windows 8 32-bit (0.33 percent), which was launched more than two years ago, did.

The leader in the Windows section (Linux figures available here) continues to be Windows 7 64-bit with 46.53 percent, followed by Windows 8.1 64-bit with 25.52 percent.

Ancient operating systems such as Windows XP and Windows Vista are also in the chart with 3.79 and 0.71 percent shares, respectively, for the 32-bit versions.

Obviously, Windows 10 adoption is very likely to grow bigger in the coming months, especially because Microsoft continues development of the operating system and we're getting closer and closer to the public launch that should take place in early fall 2015.