Windows 11 is creeping up on its three-year anniversary since launch, and the OS has apparently hit an all-time excessive for customers – nearly 30% of all Home windows PCs now run Windows 11, at the least based on one analytics agency.
That won’t appear to be rather a lot – frankly, it isn’t – nevertheless it’s at the least a marked enchancment in current occasions, the place Home windows 11’s adoption has really barely dropped, and that is definitely a optimistic signal in comparison with the chilly reception that the operating system initially acquired.
Neowin flagged that Statcounter’s most up-to-date month-to-month report exhibits Home windows 11 at 29.7% of market share, with Windows 10 nonetheless presently having fun with a big majority of 66.1%.
Usually, when a brand new working system drops, it’s extensively adopted. Nonetheless, if we’re celebrating a excessive of 30% practically three years on from launch, that’s clearly not an amazing indication that Home windows 11 is being welcomed with open arms – regardless of all its extra perks and AI features, that are repeatedly being added.
That begs the query: Why are so many individuals reluctant to maneuver to Home windows 11? For starters, the extra demanding system necessities that rule out older CPUs and machines with out TPM are a tough barrier for adoption in relation to some PCs.
Moreover, since its launch, Home windows 11 has suffered greater than its justifiable share of poor updates and buggy habits. Plus, the OS is slowly turning right into a conduit for advertisements which you can’t escape in some circumstances. Additionally, there’s simply not loads of distinction between Home windows 10 and Home windows 11 for individuals who aren’t actually that fussed about AI or Copilot (and Copilot is in Windows 10 anyway, even when all of Microsoft’s varied AI options aren’t).
May this small victory for Home windows 11 – which represents a month-to-month uptick of simply over 2% in Statcounter’s figures – merely be the results of folks shopping for new machines? You’d be hard-pressed to discover a new Home windows desktop PC or laptop computer that isn’t working Home windows 11, and downgrading your system is simply not well worth the effort for a lot of (or might not even be attainable). Particularly on condition that Windows 10 isn’t far off its End of Life anyway (that rolls round in October 2025).
It may be the case that we’ll have to attend till Windows 12 ultimately debuts and hope that it’s a sufficiently big enchancment to get Home windows 10 customers to leap ship and skip Home windows 11 – though, once more, system necessities are prone to show an insurmountable hurdle for some older PCs.
