Windows 11: The little engine that could, eventually
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Only the most ardent Microsoft apologists would insist all is well with Windows 11 adoption. Share growth of the OS stalled earlier this year and between March and April, with AdDuplex registering less than a 0.4 per cent increase. Windows 11 stood at a 19.7 per cent share, well behind the 35 percent and 26.4 percent of Windows 10 21H2 and 21H1 respectively.
[1]The figures for the end of June show Windows 11 has clawed its way to a 23.1 percent share of PCs surveyed by AdDuplex, within touching distance of the chunk occupied by Windows 10 21H1 (23.9 percent) but still a long way behind Windows 10 21H2, which grew its share to 38.2 percent. Microsoft itself has not produced any official usage statistics.
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There are some limitations to the data. AdDuplex focuses only on PCs using Windows Store apps running its SDK, meaning older or locked-down enterprise machines don't feature in the figures. Other surveys, such as [3]those published by Lansweeper, paint a far bleaker picture where Windows 11 sits some way behind the soon-to-be-out-ESU-support Windows 7.
[4]Microsoft accidentally turned off hardware requirements for Windows 11
[5]Start your engines: Windows 11 ready for broad deployment
[6]Microsoft shows off Windows updates at Build dev event
[7]Microsoft tests 'Suggested Actions' in Windows 11. Insiders: Can we turn it off?
Without the full enterprise picture of Windows 11 adoption, making sweeping market-level assumptions is a challenge. For the business set, Windows 11 often comes during hardware refreshes, especially with the infamously strict [8]hardware requirements for the OS. This means Windows 11 is unlikely to be reach corporate users until fleets are replaced, which might come later than expected if [9]business PC shipments are any indicator.
The arrival of Windows 11 22H2 in the coming months will also ease enterprise adoption passage; the upgrade is reassuringly low-key, and administrators have had a year to get used to the ins and outs of Microsoft's latest and greatest.
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As for the AdDuplex figures, the numbers continue to point to the initial surge of consumer upgrades being complete and growth now occurring as users acquire new kit to replace old. It will be interesting to observe the impact of both Windows 11 22H2 and Windows 10 22H2 when both arrive in the coming months. ®
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[1] https://reports.adduplex.com/#/r/2022-06
[2] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_software/oses&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=2&c=2Yr7FyBZuLj2PX@MC@dNosAAAAMo&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D2%26raptor%3Dcondor%26pos%3Dtop%26test%3D0
[3] https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/19/windows_11_marketshare/
[4] https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/09/windows_11_requirements/
[5] https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/19/windows_11_deployment/
[6] https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/24/windows_at_build/
[7] https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/12/windows_suggested_actions/
[8] https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/25/windows_11_processor/
[9] https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/30/gartner_shipments/
[10] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_software/oses&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=4&c=44Yr7FyBZuLj2PX@MC@dNosAAAAMo&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D4%26raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0
[11] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
Sliding down the hill - backwards
Maybe if Microsoft produced an operating system that provided users with functionality they wanted and could see an advantage in using?
Instead, it seems that every version (since W7) has been worse. Pointless rearrangements. Harder to use. Bloated with crap. More intrusive updates and becoming more of a platform for advertising than an environment to get things done.
Re: Sliding down the hill - backwards
I assume it's because I have the Enterprise version coupled with a PiHole that I don't really see the advertising but I know what you mean - my dad and brother in law both use Home versions of 10 and the adverts are dreadful and even on a home PC they have no place scattered throughout the entire OS.
I also don't understand MS's constant need to fiddle with the UI. I am not a Luddite but I often have to stop and wonder if the likes of me, a veteran of IT since before Windows 3 sometimes struggles to find the way to do what I want to do, then how is the average user supposed to manage?
Things like removing the task manager option when I right-click the taskbar. Why? What possible reason is there to do that? Did it really take up so much real estate that it had to go?
Why are there *still* duplicated ways to change settings in Control Panel and Settings? And what the fuck MS...why have you removed all the OK dialogues and apply the changes in real time?
Ok I know most of these are Windows 10 related as well but it just highlights this constant need of theirs to fiddle in ways that make users' lives harder.
And of course there's the elephant in the room: working in the EUC space for the last few years I've seen companies go through the pain of moving to Windows 10. Often they bought new hardware to do just that.
Why the hell would these companies then want to move to Windows 11 so soon? Given the ridiculous hardware requirements combined with Windows 10 support being good for another 3 years?
And no...I absolutely do not want to use an online MS account to log into my Windows machine. Stop it.
Re: Sliding down the hill - backwards
Advertising? what advertising, I haven't seen any in my win11?!?
Win11 on my laptop is the leanest it's ever been and most stable. I know it can be quite subjective depending on the machine but I'm finding it the best version of windows so far. If a restart is required then it is usually scheduled for when I'm not using it. I have more problems with O365 and it's updates than I do Windows.
EOL the only thing that matters for enterprise
Anyone with more than, say, 50 machines will have custom images for their machines, independent of what the machine comes with, and they will stick with Windows 10 as long as possible. When Windows 11 was announced, Microsoft also announced EOL for Windows 10 and that is the only stick that matters.
AdDuplex focuses only on PCs using Windows Store apps running its SDK, meaning older or locked-down enterprise machines don't feature in the figures
Ok, so it's like anything related to ads, it's pure BS.
"light at the end of the tunnel"
One wishes it was an oncoming train.
Re: "light at the end of the tunnel"
Upvote for HMHB reference
Hardware good enough
There is a lot of hardware out there, my 2017 Dell XPS15 included, that runs very well but does not have the TPM 2.0 device that Win11 mandates.
Why would anyone fork out on new hardware just to satisfy an OS upgrade?
I got prompted for win 11 on wednesday on my win 10 enterprise box - so far the upgrade has been great, M$ really learned from that awful windows 10 upgrade process.
I have an ultrawide monitor so the built in window positioning tools are a godsend <3