Windows 11 adoption picking up speed, but older sibling still ahead

There has been a clear uptick in the adoption of Windows 11 as enterprises migrate PC fleets ahead of the end of support date for Windows 10. The Statcounter market share figures confirm the OS - launched more than forty months ago - remains in second spot yet the direction of travel is obvious. Windows 10 still accounts for …

[Craig 2]

Are we going to have one of these articles on Windows 11 adoption every week until October?!

[DJV]

Hopefully! I want to know how big a boat of Windows 11 refuseniks I will be in when October comes!

[Yankee Doodle Doofus]

I came here to vent about this as well. El Reg is beating a dead horse. There was an article on this subject by THIS VERY SAME AUTHOR just 27 days ago.

[navarac]

It might be flogging a dead horse, but the horse (Microsoft) needs a good flogging for that which is Windows 11. Microsoft's Frontal Brain Lobes must be missing (like Trump's) if they just cannot see the message.

[PM.]

It's bl*dy important topic , if you ask me

[Blackjack]

Once a month should be enough to be honest.

[ComicalEngineer]

Win 11 offers me nothing that Win10 doesn't have.

In fact, I find the interface obstructive, and the inability to have the taskbar on the left of the screen downright annoying, and the amount of spyware that has to be turned off an intrusion never mind the even more annoying adverts.

There is no killer app or other significant reason to move to 11 other than M$ hammering on about end of support".

[Roger Greenwood]

"...flow of fixes to which users have become accustomed"

You miss spelled "pissed off by"

[alain williams]

I upgraded from Windows 11 years ago

Now I run X.org and will move to Waylan when Debian stable does so.

[druck]

Re: I upgraded from Windows 11 years ago

You'll feel right at home as a former Windows user, when you find that Wayland only supports a fraction of the prevision functionality.

[Anonymous Coward]

Hmm, not convinced

I suspect a sizeable proportion of these "upgrades" will be folks turning their Windows 10 machine on to find it's now Windows 11 and they are desperately Googling "how can I lose Windows 11 ?"

[ecofeco]

Corporate upgrades are kicking in

I'm on a large upgrade roll out right now. Many thousands of users. Should be done by the end of the year.

This is the ONLY reason I spent time getting used to Win 11. Because it pays my bills. If I could find a Linux support job in my region, I would be done with M$ forever.

But Win 11 is by far the worst since Millennium.

[Ball boy]

These import tarrifs will affect minds

Let's see: if a business needs to replace a desktop because the current one fails to meet the W11 requirements then they'll be spending some $1000 on new hardware. That bill is about to go up by $100 or so to cover the tariffs. Maybe this trading war will sort itself out in six months or so, maybe it won't - but buying a years' worth of W10 support seems like a sensible low cost option. As a maintenance fee, it also comes out of OpEx rather than CapEx so it keeps the beancounters happy, which in turn, may well reflect in the CEO's bonus.

Sure, W11 offers desktop AI - but that's still very much in development (I'm being polite) so there's no huge risk in holding off on that roll-out right now. Even if the biz. has grand plans to run AI on a corporate scale to help with design, call-screening, etc, etc, it'll be server/cloud based so the toy version W11 offers still isn't required. Other than planned replacements (dead/dying hardware, etc), I see no compelling reason to upgrade to W11 across an entire business unless there are external forces such as incompatibility with a key business application.

[Ilgaz]

People are dying right now

Hearing the Ukraine rare elements and minerals deal drama? They are all for the thrown away functioning hardware. All because some idiot at Ms invented (!) hypervisor based security.