Windows 11 tops market share as 10 faces extended farewell

Windows 11 has leapt ahead of Windows 10 in market share, according to the latest Statcounter figures. The numbers, which show Windows 11 at 72.57 percent and Windows 10 at 26.45 percent, appear to support a Microsoft statement from earlier this year that its flagship operating system had surpassed one billion users. …

[Bebu sa Ware]

Windows 11 tops market

Right pondians might parse "tops" as a euphemism for the "long drop."

Microsoft customers doubtlessly experience the same trepidation but with each succeeding day.

[bombastic bob]

Re: Windows 11 tops market

Windows 11 has leaptbeen kicked ahead of Windows 10 in market share

Fixed it for ya.

I would not call killing off the now 2nd place platform so that the 2nd place one can move into 1st place as "leapt". Funny thing it's not really dead yet, either.

[my work-related windows box is still running 7, and the other el cheapo one with 11 is for taxes and stuff I had no choice but to have 11 for]

[that one in the corner]

Windows 11 at 72.57 percent and Windows 10 at 26.45

Yay, W'11 is in the winner, in the prestigious category of "all the Windows boxes we saw".

Just nudge the "of all the boxes, total" under the carpet. ChromeOS? never heard of it. iOS? Now you are just making up silly names.

[EnviableOne]

Re: Windows 11 at 72.57 percent and Windows 10 at 26.45

forgot this little thing called Linux, and its baby brother called android

[Anonymous Coward]

Why is this necessary?

> Statcounter's figures must be taken with a pinch of salt since they are derived from tracking code installed on more than 1.5 million sites globally.

Why is this necessary? Shouldn't Microsoft have the actual number?

Doesn't Microsoft know how many users it has forced to sign in to their own hardware with a Microsoft account? Don't they collect unique hardware identifiers from every device forced to give up a local account?

[Kevin Johnston]

Re: Why is this necessary?

While they undoubtedly do have those numbers from the built-in datascraping they are hardly likely to release numbers which show things are not well in WindowsLand. My money would be on a chunk of that 'improved market share' coming from PCs spoofing the OS in use on websites which are optimised for Windows or undercounting of non-MS OSes by putting older or less popular variants of ChromeOS/iOS/Linux/etc into a 'Not worth reporting' bucket

[TVU]

That it has taken so long for Windows 11 to reach this milestone is because of the reluctance on the part of satisfied Windows 10 users to switch to the cruft-filled Windows 11 until it was absolutely necessary.

[AndrueC]

MS are gonna be waiting a long time for my mail server. I'm happy to leave it in its corner chuntering along on W10.

[jockmcthingiemibobb]

Mine's been chugging along on Centos 7 for about 11 years.

But yeah, Windows 11 is almost unusable and a nightmare to support as its interface is so incoherent.

[Kevin Johnston]

+1 for Centos although I have one on V7 and one on V8, because I can