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.
Windows users will do everything, including using a soon unsupported and insecure, outdated version of this proprietary garbage, instead of just switching to a better OS
You sound like a child. Be OS agnostic and use the correct tool for the job.
And if the job requires an incorrect tool, you can always shove wondows in the VM, preferably with no or heavily firewalled network access.
I agree. My ‘professional’ W10vm is specifically for the office, Outlook, Teams, etc. whatever the current contract requires.
However trying to run external USB soundcards and controllers, the latency just kills it dead, and don’t even think about a live performance or using STEMS, even if they have been precomputed. So I’ll always have a Wintop unfortunately. I could move over to Apple, but that doesn’t seem like that would be a win either.
I switched to Linux easily because this laptop does nothing but internet and office work. If you have any kind of complex workflow, changing anything is hard, let alone changing everything from the OS upwards. Same if you need to run obscure proprietary software.
Don’t lump us all together. Windows users are just linux users who aren’t there yet.
I moved early this year and haven’t had significiant problems, though I’m IT savvy and can code my way around my issues. Linux is great, and I’d been halfway there for a long time, but Windows had the edge on gaming and simplicity. They fucked up, though when they started pushing for AI and Win11, at least for me. Where the Rubicon lies will be different for everyone, but it does exist for many.
We win by couching linux as the place to go to escape corporate focus and greed, not by being elitist.
I’m sorry, but no. Absolutely not.
You want to install Windows without giving up all of your personal information to a greedy corporation that will sell it or use it to train AI? Too bad, gotta figure out how to launch the command line during the OOBE process (it’s
Shift + F10btw) and figure out which command to enter (btw it’soobe\bypassnro), then restart your PC to reload the OOBE, just so you can avoid the absolutely brain-dead account requirement. Simple, right?You want to stop Windows from using Edge by default? Very simple, just download this tool from GitHub.
You want to get rid of Microsoft Edge? Just a couple of PowerShell commands. Very simple, very intuitive, very user-friendly, right?
You want to do anything that you as an end user aren’t meant to do? Have fun and dive into
regedit, while always having to fear that you might brick your system.You want to disable Recall/Copilot/whatever they call their AI garbage? Too bad, you can’t. It’s baked into the system specifically in a way that makes it impossible to remove. What a fucking simple and intuitive operating system. Always works like a charm and lets me do whatever I want.