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.
I had a file browser with tabs on my 2009 Ubuntu laptop… heck, even with the full compiz fusion ridiculousness I had going on, it was more responsive than win11.
Yes, compiz was fun. My laptop could barely run windows 7, but compiz ran smoothly.
And that’s why I’m happy to see tabs finally. But they really screwed the rest of the file explorer.