Although Windows 10’s growth slowed in August, the one-year-old operating system didn’t slam on the brakes as expected, according to data from multiple analytics sources.

The smaller-than-anticipated slowdown may signal the start of enterprise deployments, a move that would vindicate Microsoft’s efforts to nudge businesses to adopt the OS faster than they had earlier editions.

According to U.S.-based metrics vendor Net Applications, Windows 10 gained 1.9 percentage points of user share during August, putting its mark at 23% of all personal computers for the month.

Windows 10 powered 25.4% of all machines running Windows: The difference between the user share of all PCs and only those running Windows stemmed from the fact that Windows powered 90.5% of all personal computers, not 100%.

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