Windows 11 market share falls despite Microsoft ad blitz
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Only 10 months left until Windows 10 end of support and people still seem to prefer it

Despite Microsoft’s push to get customers onto Windows 11, growth in the market share of the software giant’s latest operating system has stalled, while Windows 10 has made modest gains, according to fresh figures from Statcounter.

This is not the news Microsoft wanted to hear. After half a year of growth, the line for Windows 11 global desktop market share has taken a slight downturn, according to the website usage monitor, going from 35.6 percent in October to 34.9 percent in November. Windows 10, on the other hand, managed to grow its share of that market by just under a percentage point to 61.8 percent.

The dip in usage comes just as Microsoft has been forcing full-screen ads onto the machines of customers running Windows 10 to encourage them to upgrade. The stats also revealed a small drop in the market share of its Edge browser, despite relentlessly plugging the application in the operating system.

  • obbeel@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
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    20 days ago

    Windows ‘just works’? What about all the programs crashes that you need to go through endless YouTube tutorials to fix? What about having to fill up a form and register your credit card for every closed source program you need to install? I don’t think Windows ‘just works’.

    Not to mention all the “freeware” that doesn’t do what it is supposed to do. Like if you want a background removal from your webcam.

    • hydrospanner@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      20 days ago

      Windows ‘just works’? What about all the programs crashes that you need to go through endless YouTube tutorials to fix? What about having to fill up a form and register your credit card for every closed source program you need to install?

      I’ve literally never had either of these experiences with W10.

      At least not in the past 5+ years.