New month and same story. The share of Windows 11 did not just rise, and everything points to it You will not be able to defeat the king of the tableWindows 10, before the release of Windows 12.

Microsoft is promoting Windows 11 in every possible way. That same week he assured me that he did “most reliable version” and that his performance has improved. He also noted that the Windows ecosystem had 1 billion active PCs, but did not offer specific data by version. It must not have good numbers and continue to use aggressive advertising and shady designs to convince users of its benefits. Not everything can be criticized and we also recently received a version of Moments 3 with many new features, light but welcome to improve the system.

But there is no way. Users did not fall in love with Windows 11 by chaotic management of hardware requirements; update failure; unfulfilled feature promises; performance could improve and ultimately because it does not exceed a “Windows 10 Improved”.

Windows 11 adoption is not improving

Despite the fact that Microsoft no longer distributes Windows 10 licenses and that all new OEM PCs are sold with Windows 11 pre-installed, its market share remains around 20%. It even fell to 22.95% this month, according to Statcounter data. While, Windows 10 remains almost unchanged, rising by a few tenths to 71.9%.

Unsurprisingly, other versions such as Windows 7 have fallen sharply since Microsoft ended the program. Extended security update in January 2023 and all other software vendors stopped supporting it. Even so, a share of 3.61% still means a lot of teams. As for Windows 8 / 8.1, these are already residual versions with only a few tenths of shares. Windows XP rounds out the ecosystem with 0.32%.

Outside of Windows, highlighting 18%, which Statcounter assigns to Apple’s OS X. As for Linux, it remains unchanged at just under 3%. We have to add, for the part of Linux it uses, 3.54% of Google’s Chrome OS. Saying that the Windows ecosystem as a whole is falling all the way through 2023 and has “only” 62% of the whole.

All this always according to Statcounter data, which, as you know, is not pure mathematics and can only serve as a statistical approximation. Additionally, there are 13% of “unknown” systems that their metrics are unable to assign. In any case, this data (in the absence of other officials, which no technology provides) helps us see trends on the desktop.

And in case you were wondering… Yes, Windows 12 is right around the corner and Windows 10 (not Windows 11) wants to be the dominant system at launch.