Windows 10’s market share continues to grow and this is troubling news for Microsoft, considering that it will end its life cycle in less than a year and a half. Meanwhile, Windows 11 has fallen again, according to Statcounter, in a trend that Microsoft can’t reverse.

7 out of 10 users who use Microsoft operating systems use Windows 10. This release gained almost a percentage point to break the 70% mark for the first time since September 2023. And it’s news considering that its own creator has done everything possible and impossible to prevent it. It no longer sells licenses for this version (neither for new OEM equipment nor for retail) nor does it receive quality updates that improve it. However, users still do not upgrade to Windows 11 even for free.

Windows 11 is the version that fewer and fewer people want it faces a series of mounting problems that go back to the chaotic management of artificially increasing hardware requirements that has penalized it since its launch. The situation has not only not improved, but is getting worse. Microsoft is making it an advertising platform, and that adds to the amount of junk software that comes with telemetry by default or is just slower and less stable than Windows 10.

There is an explanation from Microsoft why Windows 11 stopped increasing quotas. On the contrary, In the month of April, it fell again by almost one percentage point. It’s normal for users to continue to maintain Windows 10 PCs, even though Microsoft continues to use all sorts of tricks to migrate users, including “dark patterns” that try to force an update.

Later this month, Microsoft will introduce new artificial intelligence features for Windows 11, which could become the first strong reason to leave Windows 10 behind, if they do what they promise, which is not true yet. In addition, rumors suggest that some of the most interesting components of the Windows 11 2024 Update will not work with existing hardware, as they will require a higher level of problems, such as CPU or RAM.

For some users, this will be another reason not to update. And if Windows 10 continues to grow, the end-of-life problem will be huge. Will Microsoft leave such a million computers without technical support or security patches?