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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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[-] demizerone@lemmy.world 65 points 2 weeks ago

Windows 11 is a privacy invasion. It's the worst OS I have ever used for a day and a half.

[-] Mwa@lemm.ee 7 points 2 weeks ago

Windows 11 is: buggy (Remember That bug where AMD Cpus where slow with 11), slow,maybe training your personal data on ai (Maybe),Very Ugly,Cannot be customized.

[-] CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

I hate Windows 11, for a multitude of reasons. But it is still a better experience than Vista. An unbelievably better than Windows ME. Windows ME for me was the worst desktop OS I think I've ever used. If we open it up to just any old OS, then I want to say Novell was the worst I ever used.

[-] theangryseal@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

I was fortunately running top of the line hardware when Vista came out. I didn’t understand all the hate at all… until I sat down and did some work on my uncle’s computer with Vista Basic. Holy shit, even with all of the features that required better hardware removed from the OS, it was the slowest and most miserable experience I ever had on a computer. It was brand new and covered in stickers advertising Vista and it still wasn’t capable of running the damn OS.

That was true with nearly every computer I touched that had it on it.

Mine was awesome though. No complaints.

I haven’t used 11, but it sounds like they’ve done it again.

[-] alsimoneau@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 weeks ago

I feel like I'm alone in this but Vista was great. I preferred it and 8 over 7 and 10.

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