Windows 11 still not winning the OS popularity contest
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2022/12/05/windows_11_adoption_november_statcounter/
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The software giant is offering an option of upgrading to Windows 11 as an out of box experience to its Windows 10 22H2 installed base, the main aim being to smooth their path forward to the latest operating system.
"On November 30, 2022, an out-of-band update was released to improve the Windows 10, version 2004, 20H2, 21H1, 21H2, and 22H2 out-of-box experience (OOBE). It provides eligible devices with the option to upgrade to Windows 11 as part of the OOBE process. This update will be available only when an OOBE update is installed."
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The update, KB5020683, applies only to Windows 10 Home and Professional versions 2004, 20H2, 21H1, 22H2. There are some pre-requisites that Microsoft has listed [2]here before users can make the move to Windows 11.
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The operating system was released on October 5 last year but shifting stubborn consumers onto this software has proved challenging for top brass at Microsoft HQ in Redmond.
According to Statcounter, a web analytics service that has tracking code installed on 1.5 million websites and records a page view for each, some 16.12 percent of Windows users had [7]installed Windows 11 in November , higher than the 15.44 percent in the [8]prior month , but likely still not close to the figures that Microsoft was hoping for.
Back to the oldies
At the same time, Windows 10 slipped below the 70 percent mark to 69.77 percent. But Windows 7 actually gained share month-on-month, rising to 10.24 percent from 9.61 percent, as did Windows 8.1, growing to 2.54 percent from 2.45 percent. Windows 8 was also up to 0.79 percent from 0.64 percent and Windows XP edged up to 0.4 percent.
It'll surprise no one that Windows remains the dominant desktop OS of choice by a country mile, with a market share of 75.09 percent. Apple's OS X remained in second spot with 15.63 percent, and Linux took 2.77 percent of the pie, with others, including FreeBSD, sitting well back.
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Adoption of Windows 11 is touted by some PC makers to drive a refresh cycle next year, with businesses generally holding off on deploying the latest OS until around 18 months after launch. ®
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Thanks for bringing back the PTSD by reminding us of ME.
ME wasn't that bad. It was just pointless. Only released to fill Microsoft's coffers before they finally released XP.
Awwwww, poor Microsoft
It is pointless them whining that nobody is using their new OS when they have effectively limited it to new (or nearly new) PCs. I'm certainly not going to upgrade to it on my home PC as it's a 7 year old i7-4790 Haswell and Windows 11 is incapable of running on such a venerable antique piece of crap,... that somehow seems to manage to run everything just fine under Windows 10 (21H2) including a variety of PC games. If they insist on putting such stupidly restrictive requirements into their latest effort, then hardly anyone is going to upgrade to it. By the time I get around to replacing this PC Win12 will be out anyways.
Re: Awwwww, poor Microsoft
If you're desperate, you could probably install it as a clean install - for some reason the hardware requirements are far more relaxed for clean installs than for upgrades.
Or you could just not bother.
Re: Awwwww, poor Microsoft
Getting it on isn't the problem. If you don't have the correct hardware you don't get automatic updates as far as I'm aware..
Re: Awwwww, poor Microsoft
my home PC as it's a 7 year old i7-4790 Haswell
Only 7 years old? Mine is 10 years old AMD FX-8150 and happily running up to date Debian. Had to change the PSU a couple of times, that is about it.
Re: Awwwww, poor Microsoft
"You had an FX-8150? We used to DREEEAM about an FX-8150!"
Market size
All these "Windows 7 actually increased market share" stories (as it seems a regular thing) imply to me that the market as a whole is shrinking.
Old reliable machines presumably stay that way, but newer ones get dumped through churn (eg 3 year refresh cycle, but with fewer replacements coming in)
Re: Market size
XP at 0.4% increase, what a coinkydink, I've just learned of a need for an XP install. Where does one get an iso for XP.... Asking for a friend!
Bleep em
I ended up replacing my desktop machine because Micr$oft didn't like on-board video and refused to update my machine to 10. Now M$ doesn't want to upgrade the new computer to 11 because it doesn't like the processor. I'm no longer using the app I was using on 7. Maybe it's time to make a clean break and switch to Linux.
Re: Bleep em
You should, it'll be fun.
GJC
Microsoft are somewhat famed for alternating between a good version and a terrible one: That they would release a POS then work to fix all the mistakes and errors to release something that was usable.
Then, also, they've a reputation for releasing what is in effect a Beta version to get the public to test the new version on a wider variety of hardware (this isn't limited to Microsoft, either - seems to be a trend with most software houses these days).
Plus, once we've got a version working how we like it, we don't want to upgrade and start all over again: We want to enjoy what we've got and not change anything until it breaks - which will happen when M$ release a buggy patch to force people off the older versions. Not that anyone will notice - M$ seem happy to release buggy patches fairly regularly. Makes me wonder if this is deliberate.
As ever, it's greed at play, and not just in terms of charging people for something they don't want and really don't need. Rather, it's an exercise in control: You don't own that PC, M$ does! (Yes, I'm old enough to remember that argument.) That attitude is why people resist M$'s demand we comply with their decree that all will move to Win11! Even though Win10 was initially promised to be the last version of Windows as from then on it would just be patches and updates to keep up with changing hardware...
So I'll wait to see if Win12 is any good and maybe I'll move to that.
Not sorry to disappoint but won't be holding my breath until then.
Another week, another "Microsoft still doesn't get why nobody wants to 'upgrade' to the worst Windows edition since ME, shuffles deck chairs on Titanic" article