Windows 11 market share falls despite Microsoft ad blitz
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Only 10 months left until Windows 10 end of support and people still seem to prefer it

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.

  • stevedice@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    133·
    15 days ago

    Honestly, I don’t get the hate of Windows 11. Sure, compatibility is a shitshow but if you can install it, it’s better than W10. I updated a couple months back and was pleasantly surprised. Things I like:

    • Improved tiling
    • The new terminal app is actually usable.
    • More consistent theming
    • Settings menu is no longer useless
    • Last two points combined result in me not getting flashbanged nearly as often as I did in W10
    • Improved volume mixer. I even ditched EarTrumpet.
    • Most people won’t care about this one, but the little pop-ups that appear when you hover an icon in the system tray don’t get stuck in your screen as much as they did in W10.

    Things that got worse:

    • The start menu. Seriously. Stop with the redesigns.
    • Taskbar is no longer movable. I liked it on the left.
    • They hid the right click menu under an additional “More options” menu for some reason

    Disclaimer: I only use my Windows computer for playing games. I do all of my regular day to day computing on my laptop with Fedora (KDE spin because I’m not a godless heathen I like it better). I’m also running the Education version, which is basically Enterprise so I have feature updates straight up turned off and only get security updates. It also doesn’t have any ads but my ROG Ally has W11 Home and it doesn’t have any ads either, so I don’t even know what’s real anymore.

    • codenamekino@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      15 days ago

      There’s a registry hack for the right click menu. I run it on every new computer that I set up at work, either at setup or when someone calls to complain about it.

      • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
        51·
        15 days ago

        There’s a registry hack

        By the time i was editing registry and doing all sorts of other power user shit… i realize i should just switch to linux lol

        • codenamekino@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          15 days ago

          Yup! I made the switch a couple years ago personally, but it turns out that corporate device management for Linux is a huge PITA for mediocre functionality.

      • stevedice@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        15 days ago

        Oh, yeah, already did it. I was more so speaking to the experience a regular user would get out of the box.

    • MCasq_qsaCJ_234@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      15 days ago

      It’s already a custom or tradition to hate Windows regardless of the version.

      I agree that Windows 11 has good and bad things.

      In addition, the news is a bit sensationalist in my opinion because it talks about only a small crash that it had in November.