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Windows 11 market share falls despite Microsoft ad blitz | Windows 10, on the other hand, managed to grow its share of that market (www.theregister.com)

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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.

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[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

It's simple: Ain't nobody got time for your bullshit, Microsoft.

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[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 16 points 3 weeks ago

I'm now recommending family members and relatives to switch to Macs if they're not willing to install Linux on their PC.

I'm trying really hard to educate them about how intrusive Windows 11 is. But in the end, it's like Facebook or whatever. They just don't care about their online privacy and how their personal information is handled. Sometimes I don't even know why I try.

[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Microsoft, this is like windows vista all over again. Make it less shitty, get rid of all the crap you're pushing and make it faster. Call it windows 12 and if it's good we'll buy it. Worked for XP, worked for 10. How do you still not get this?

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[–] LavenderDay3544@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

I sense 12 coming soon if MS wants to EOL 10 without losing customers.

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

I'm just acclimating myself to Linux and attempting to learn how to get Wine working. I'm just done with this shit.

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[–] golden_zealot@lemmy.ml 15 points 3 weeks ago (26 children)

The moment I can verify a solution for my music production workflow on Linux, I know that I'm out as well.

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[–] Oaksey@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago

I had to make the change to Windows 11 at work, it was certainly a downgrade. Pretty common that there is a massive wait for even the most simple applications to load. Quite often I end up opening multiple copies, because I think the first click to open didn’t register, click again and they all open at once. This is on the same hardware that Windows 10 did fine on.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

because windows 2000 was peak windows

[–] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

As much as I loved 2000, XP was better and 7 the best ever.

2000 was the pioneer though, it was such a huge step forward in every way

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[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 13 points 2 weeks ago

Windows 10 no longer being updated by Microsoft is it's biggest selling point

[–] JeffKerman1999@sopuli.xyz 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Microsoft was doing a somewhat ok job at windows with windows7. Then they decided to do stuff like remove media center and remove support for TV tuners and pump up the tracking and assorted idiocies

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[–] droporain@lemmynsfw.com 13 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Lol was windows 11 was a scam to make companies pay for future security updates this whole time?

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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

When you "have" to keep making new versions to satisfy market "demand" in the "free" market.

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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

They're still too hardheaded to get it

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

you misspelled greedy

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[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago

Hmmm.... Maybe people using windows 10 really do love the full screen ads! Yeah! They missed the ads so they went back to windows 10 until they can get those ads in windows 11! Yup! That must be it!

I would double down on full screen unstoppable ads. Maybe one that looks like a BSOD? That would be lovely!

[–] lud@lemm.ee 10 points 3 weeks ago

I wonder if the stats will rise considerably during 2025 with all the business and enterprise environment switching after delaying the upgrade for a few years. We certainly have to do that at work.

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