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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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[+] frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe -18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Special hardware meaning a TPM chip to encrypt your data? Why would they force you to use 10 year old tech, way too new!

Remember they aren't forcing you to update, they just are telling you they won't support your old-ass shit :)

[–] smallZe13@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I built my computer new 7 years ago, and it doesn't support windows 11. Still works like a charm, at least for my use case. There's no reason for me to spend the 1000 to update it. Easier to move to linux when windows 10 hits EOL.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Microsoft has gotten way too comfortable with having no real OS competition... I think maybe after this they might actually feel the hit as Linux has gotten so easy to install/use (in some cases, like updates, easier than Windows), is so stable, and works with most games.

People are noticing and giving it a shot since they have nothing to lose.

[–] frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Linux being easy to install was a weird target to begin with. If it were good, framework could easily find popularity. The issue with Linux is less the install than the upkeep and the jank package ecosystem. For every official package it feels like theres a bootleg build uploaded through gitlab ci by user luvgunz6969. Even something as basic as syncthing seems to have 5 different ways to install and run it. Firefox is insecure on Linux. Thunderbird doesn't have a fucking tray icon. Installing specific drivers breaks secureboot. It's a fucking minefield.

[–] obbeel 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't know about it being stable. I've run python scripts that opens lots of images before, and my OS (Linux Mint) let's it empty my memory and freeze my computer, it isn't even a sudo command - that isn't stable behavior to me.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sounds like user error.

But no really, I recently switched to Bazzite, which is immutable and atomic, and it is 1000% more stable than Windows.

[–] obbeel 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It doesn't hurt to kill processes that will freeze the computer.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago

Definitely. Is the implication that you can't easily do this in Linux?

[–] frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I assume you mean a desktop without a tpm chip but with a tpm header and from the Intel lines where they didn't bother to include the soft tpm as part of the design? I had such a PC, roughly the same time frame as yours.

My phone is faster. Less RAM, but faster processor.

7 years is a long time in tech.