In the end days of Windows 10, Windows 7 enjoys a resurgence

8 October 2025

Windows 10 support is ending in only two weeks, and with a new month here, Statcounter has new data about the Windows market and how different versions perform. This month, the data is rather odd: Statcounter reports that Windows 10 dropped to a seven-year low, while Windows 7 is experiencing a sudden influx of users.

Support for Windows 7 ceased in 2020, interestingly, eleven years after the arrival of the Microsoft made operating system (OS). But now, according to data collected by web analytics service Statcounter, there has been a significant increase in computers running the obsolete OS.

What, has some organisation suddenly begun making W7 widely available for download?

Or, has someone figured out a way to make many thousands of devices running Windows 10 look as if W7 is their OS? Or has the data Statcounter collects somehow become scrambled?