Windows 11 still struggling for market share - even with sneaky upgrades!

 

Windows 11 may be the newest operating system from Microsoft, but it's far from the most used. Windows 10 has hovered around a 70% market share for well over a year, according to Statcounter. Interestingly, the latest stats showed a large increase in Windows 10 users in February 2023.

Windows 10 market share increased from 68.86% to 73.31% between January and February of this year. That spike brings the operating system to its highest share since June 2022.

Windows 7 market share in February plummeted from 9.55% to 5.33%. Notably, Windows 7 extended support ended in January 2023.

While other factors may be at play. Users are likely moving from Windows 7 to Windows 10 because their systems do not meet the strict hardware requirements of Windows 11. PCs that originally shipped with Windows 7 are unlikely to have the components necessary to upgrade to Windows 11, such as a TPM 2.0 chip.

Windows 10 will still be supported until October 2025, so anyone running the operating system has a while before worrying about finding a system that can run Windows 11.

Geeky fact of the day time! While talking about Operating Systems, let's briefly look back from the current duff one (Win11) to through the Microsoft "Wall Of Shame" to Windows Vista... Did you know that the Windows Start up Sound in Vista was composed by Robert Fripp? The start-up sound in Vista was the best thing about that version of Windows!

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