After a slow February, Windows 10 boosted its growth in users during March, data published today showed.

According to U.S.-based analytics vendor Net Applications, Windows 10 powered 15.6% of all Windows PCs in March, a 1.4-point increase from the month prior. Net Applications measures user share — a proxy for the percentage of the global PC population running a particular operating system — by tallying unique visitors to clients’ websites.

Net Applications’ Windows 10 growth last month was 25% larger than the gains in February and the fourth largest since the operating system’s mid-2015 debut.

Windows 10 continued to put distance between it and other versions of Windows, including Windows XP (with a 12% share of all Windows) and the combination of Windows 8 and 8.1 (13.3%). Windows 10 has been Microsoft’s second-most-popular OS, behind only Windows 7, since last month.

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