Windows 11 market share falls despite Microsoft ad blitz
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Only 10 months left until Windows 10 end of support and people still seem to prefer it

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.

  • andros_rex@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    25 days ago

    I don’t understand how Windows 11 file system/explorer just chugs so much. If you have a folder with more than a dozen or so files, it’s optional whether anything will load or not. Everything about Windows 11 is leaning into the worst aspects of windows 10, without any benefit.

    • telllos@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      25 days ago

      Yes, they added tabs, which is good. But made the rest crap. When you right click a file, copy is just 1cm higher. At the top of the pop up.

      • andros_rex@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        25 days ago

        I had a file browser with tabs on my 2009 Ubuntu laptop… heck, even with the full compiz fusion ridiculousness I had going on, it was more responsive than win11.

        • telllos@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          24 days ago

          Yes, compiz was fun. My laptop could barely run windows 7, but compiz ran smoothly.

          And that’s why I’m happy to see tabs finally. But they really screwed the rest of the file explorer.

    • maniajack@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      25 days ago

      And how do they still fucking suck at searching for files. I can find shit without the Everything app

    • GenosseFlosse@feddit.orgEnglish
      1·
      25 days ago

      Doesn’t even register that you created or deleted a file in the explorer window that’s open, instead you have to refresh it with F5 to see the changes, like it’s some sort of web app from the 1990s. Pretty sure older windows explorer versions would update the view when files changed…