A day after Microsoft shoved Windows 8 into the background with its introduction of Windows 10, an analytics firm reported that Windows 8’s user share plummeted by its largest amount ever.

September’s numbers from Net Applications put the combined user share of Windows 8 and 8.1 at 12.3% of the world’s desktop and notebook systems, a drop of 1.1 percentage points from August. Last month’s slide was the third in the last four months, and more than 11 times the previous one-month record decline.

Windows 8 accounted for 13.3% of the personal computers running Windows, a plunge of 1.3 percentage points. The difference between the numbers for allpersonal computers and only those running Windows was due to the fact that Windows powered 92% of all personal computers in September, not 100%.

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