According to a recent study by Lansweeper, Windows 11 is currently running on just 1.44% of all registered PCs, putting the new OS behind even legacy platforms such as Windows XP with a 1.71% share.

As for other builds, the total number of PCs on Windows 7 was 4.7%, while Windows 10 was the absolute leader with 80.34% – which is probably due to the ease of updating at launch of this OS. Indeed, according to a Lansweeper report, in 2022 more than 50% of computers cannot upgrade to Windows 11.

“Lansweeper data, based on approximately 30 million Windows devices from 60,000 organizations, shows that, on average, only 44.4% of workstations are eligible for automatic updates,” the company writes in its market research.

However, despite the unflattering numbers from Lansweeper, AdDuplex data has moved sharply in favor of Microsoft’s latest OS, according to analysis by Computer World. According to their calculations, the use of the new collection is approaching 9%. How the two reputable companies achieved such disparate numbers remains unclear. Another IDC company believes that sales of Microsoft-based PCs in the first quarter of 2022 decreased for manufacturers such as Lenovo, HP, Acer and others compared to the same period of the previous year.

“The PC market is experiencing two years of double-digit growth, so a slowdown in the first quarter does not mean the industry is in a downward spiral,” IDC explains in its report.