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Windows 11 market share falls despite Microsoft ad blitz | Windows 10, on the other hand, managed to grow its share of that market (www.theregister.com)
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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.

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[–] jpablo68@infosec.pub 36 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

The main problem is that Win11 can only run in special hardware and Microsoft can pry out my potato computer from my cold, dead hands. I won't change my hardware to update my OS.

[–] derpgon@programming.dev 12 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Do it the other way, change your OS! Embrace the pinguin!

[–] jpablo68@infosec.pub 3 points 3 hours ago

I'm considering it, I'll have to use Autocad on the web and skyciv if I have to.

[–] hydrospanner@lemmy.world -4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Man, it's a toss up for me as to which I hate more: Microsoft threatening and badgering me toward W11 (and by extension, a new computer) or Linux fanboys evangelizing for their preferred system.

Both are complete non-starters for me. I'm not buying a new machine while my current one does everything I need just fine... And after a few years of using Linux on my laptop back in college, I have no desire to set foot in that environment again either.

[–] jenny_ball@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

i know right? they act like it's such a trivial transition.

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

The transition is much easier than it was 10 or even 5 years ago, that's probably a big part of it