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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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[–] Xatolos@reddthat.com 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Wow, what is running in your background though?

I have Windows 11 and it uses a total of 5.6 GB of RAM (I'm also using a Surface Pro 7 if that matters) at idle. I would bring up task manager and see where all that RAM is going.

[–] xapr@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

5.6 GB RAM usage on idle, I presume on a fresh boot, is just outrageous for an OS, especially relative to 8 o 16 GB total RAM.

[–] Xatolos@reddthat.com 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wait until you see what the new OSs will need soon. Windows Copilot+ PC, macOS with Apple Intelligence, and newer versions of Android all have a starting need of 16GB (for background AI processes that are done on device). I doubt they will have a small idle RAM footprint.

(iPhone and iPad OS hasn't been stated for their RAM requirements, but they never do.)

[–] xapr@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 week ago

True, good points!