Windows 11 Finally Overtakes Windows 10 (theregister.com)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/07/04/1655206/windows-11-finally-overtakes-windows-10
- Source link: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/04/windows_11_market_share/
> As of today, July's StatCounter figures show [1]the market share of Windows 11 at 50.24 percent , with Windows 10 at 46.84 percent. It's a far cry from a year ago, when Windows 10 stood at 66.04 percent and Windows 11 languished at 29.75 percent.
[1] https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/04/windows_11_market_share/
My Win 10 computer is down. (Score:2)
After rebooting, I have to go to task manager and run Firefox to get some use out of my computer. I will next week try to dual boot into a fresh Windows and Linux. Last time a windows update crashed my Linux OS. I hope that this time I can use Linux instead of MS.
Re: (Score:2)
You can run explorer.exe from the task manager and that should relaunch the start menu. Just FYI.
Re: Try credible lies (Score:1)
The cited stats are Windows machines only. "What percent of Windows users are on 11?"
Still pathetic (Score:3)
And one look at Win11 shows why: This is the next lemmon from Microsoft.
Re: (Score:2)
Honestly, for most users, they don't see a difference between Windows 10 and 11. Sure, there are a few style changes, but if you're not a technical user, you might not realize which OS you're using, if you sit down to a computer.
Windows 11 is Untrustworthy (Score:2)
I have had password availability problems with Windows 11, that I never had with Windows 10. Windows 10 was more reliable for me. I am having audio recording latency issues, too.
Windows 11 Bluetooth is Still Trash (Score:3)
To use Windows 11, is the continually beg it to reconnect your headset. They nearly eliminated Bluetooth file transfer.
Re: (Score:2)
What kind of a masochist uses Bluetooth file transfer? No really that has been truly painful on every platform ever created. There's a reason many devices these days (including things like phones and cameras) will use Bluetooth only to initiate a Wifi connection and then transfer that way.
Now Using Linux more than Windows (Score:2)
I have over $2000 worth of Windows software. Now I have to reconsider whether or not I should buy anything else Windows. I do not trust Recall. I am tired of forced inopportune updates. I am tried of its indexing grinding on my SSD'.
Microsoft needs to be held accountable (Score:3)
If hundreds of millions of people were told they are obsolete there would be revolutions on the street, why should we put up with it for our computers? I spent a lot of money on a Threadripper computer, it is currently on the right side of Windows 11s requirements but eventually with Windows 12 or 13 it will get the chop and my £5000 investment will be worthless. The complexity of modern operating systems need to be regulated like infrastructure megaprojects. The fact that Microsoft is laying off so many people is also causing loss of institutional knowledge in the company, which could lead to Windows being unfixable in the future.
What about that missing ~3% (Score:2)
Windows 11 + Windows 10: 97.08% in 2025, up from 95.79% in 2024.
Leaves you wondering about the 3% of systems still running Windows {95,98,XP,Vista,7,...}. Probably embedded systems, sigh.
Not by choice (Score:3, Insightful)
People buy a new computer, it comes with Windows 11. That's the only reason Windows 11 is increasing its market share.