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.

  • @brucethemoose
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    524 hours ago

    Again, this is awesome but probably not the main factor, as most people dont know how to install an OS.

    • @LifeInMultipleChoice
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      23 hours ago

      Step one is to run format C,

      Then shits broke and the automatic repair likely won’t be able to make heads or tails of it, doubt sfc or dism will help to much… so they will open Google on their phone and realize they should have created a recovery drive before formatting the C drive.

      But now they know!

      • @brucethemoose
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        23 hours ago

        I mean, if you even have to go into the bios or dip into the mechanics of drive letters and formatting, you have already lost most people.

        • @LifeInMultipleChoice
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          423 hours ago

          Im just tired of driving 50 miles each way to work again. If I can get more people to fuck up their computers locally maybe I can start a local job 🤷