Windows 10 May 2019 Update has experienced an enormous spike in adoption, and has already overtaken the October 2018 Update having a seriously speedy rollout, at least based on some stats.

Fundamental essentials monthly figures from AdDuplex, which show that the May 2019 Update has tripled its degree of adoption in August, and is now on 33% of Windows 10 PCs (the stats are derived via adverts run on apps from the Microsoft Store, having a sample size over 100,000 devices).

You may recall that whenever Microsoft first started deploying the May 2019 Update, it took a really cautious approach, although that was hardly surprising given the disastrous previous (October 2018 Update) upgrade. In the first week of its release (the ultimate week in May), the May 2019 Update only found a home on 1.4% of PCs based on AdDuplex.

That increased to six.3% in June, and 11.4% last month in July, so essentially that's a stable 5% monthly for those initial few months. However, now the floodgates have evidently opened, as the jump to 33% in August represents an almost 22% increase.

And clearly what's promising for Microsoft is the fact that despite this much faster pace of deployment, no serious problems have emerged (even though some minor niggles have popped up with cumulative updates recently).

Neatly divided

Interestingly, the stats for August show that Windows 10 versions are roughly split into three across the users list - with a third on the May 2019 Update, a third on the October 2018 Update, along with a third around the April 2018 Update.

The majority of the users upgrading towards the May 2018 Update come from the April 2018 Update, and are skipping straight within the famously wobbly October 2018 Update.

This is no real surprise as Microsoft had previously stated that it's forcing upgrades on April 2018 Update users, as they are with an old version of Windows 10 that the end-of-service date is coming closer and closer (November 12).

Obviously, we are saying the upgrade has been forced on machines, however, you can still delay it by as much as 35 days (even on Windows 10 Home), but going through these latest figures, it seems most people are now keen to move to the latest version of Microsoft's desktop operating-system.