The status of both Windows 7 and Windows 10 remained muddled in April, an analytics vendor said this week, with their expected progress – Windows 7 in decline, 10 on the rise – again upended.

According to California-based Net Applications, Windows 7 added more than a tenth of a percentage point of user share – an estimate of the portion of all PCs powered by that operating system – in April, ending the month on 43.6% of the world’s PCs and on 49.3% of all systems running a flavor of Windows. (The second number is larger than the first because Windows accounted for 88.4% of all operating systems, not 100%.)

Meanwhile, Windows 10 was flat last month, accounting for 33.8% of all personal computer operating systems and 38.2% of all those running Windows.

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