The growth rate of Windows 11 users is not what you would expectand this is something that Microsoft certainly weighs heavily on. However, there are reasons that explain this and make the medium-term outlook more positive. And it’s because he’s been through virtually flat growth since its launch, and now it seems to be gaining momentum, even though the numbers are still low.

We have said several times that the launch date Windows 11 didn’t seem like a finished product to me. Not operationally, because in this respect, except for some problems, everything seemed to be fine. The problem is that for many, it has not reached the level expected of a new version of the operating system. If Windows 11 was called Windows 10.5, many people would consider it more true.

They took note in Redmond and then In recent months, we’ve seen how much news has begun to come, already announced, on Windows 11. The clearest example is the support for the use of Android applications, but we have also seen other moves, such as the improvement of the Microsoft Store and the advent of DirectStorage. Elements that were announced in the presentation from June last year, but which were not yet available when Windows 11 came to its first users.

Even more, now we are not talking about what has already come, but about what is yet to come. Less than a week ago, we had confirmation that the RTM version of Windows 11 22H2 is ready and there is a fairly widespread view that with the arrival of this first major operating system update, Windows 11 will already be ready enough, and proven to be a good time to jump.

Meanwhile, and as we can see in the results of the monthly Steam survey, Windows 11 continues to grow in the share of usersAlthough it is true that at a much slower pace than the previous month. And it is so that if its growth was 2.22% in April, in May it must be satisfied with just over a quarter, with 0.65%. Less than 1%, a relatively modest jump, but gradually adding up.

We won’t have to wait too long for the arrival of Windows 11 22H2 And while many people wait in the first few weeks to see if the upgrade is safe, we can expect those numbers to rise from then on. Should Microsoft wait until the release of Windows 11 until everything included in update 22H2 is ready? Good question, because maybe this way its growth would be much faster. But on the other hand, they had practically a year to get feedback and hone many elements of the system.