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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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[-] twinnie@feddit.uk 7 points 2 weeks ago

I don’t think many people are changing OSs on their laptops, but you may be right about them ditching laptops altogether. 15 years everybody had a computer, now many people just get by with a phone.

[-] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yeah, probably the switches that are making any meaningful impact to the statistics are Windows 11 users buying a Mac (edit: or a Chromebook). I don't doubt that there is a higher than usual number of Windows users switching to Linux because of Microsoft's latest nonsense, but you're right that it's probably not the biggest part of this stat.

[-] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yeah I bet people are just getting by with a phone. There's an entire generation that uses phones for 95% of their computer needs.

I'm using a phone app right now haha.

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