Windows 11 has hit its highest market share yet, but will it surpass Windows 10 in 8 months?
Windows 11 is slowly but surely catching up.
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Windows 11 has finally reached its highest market share since the operating system’s release back in 2021. According to the latest stats, at 36.65% market share reported in January, Windows 11 is now approximately 24% behind Windows 10, the 10-year-old operating system that will hit its EOS in October.
While this might still not seem much, compared to a year ago, Windows 11 has grown by almost 10%, and it will continue to grow in the following months as more users will have to upgrade to it.
It’s worth noting that Windows 11 has a mandatory TPM 2.0 requirement, and many older systems can’t support it, so users might have to purchase new PCs and laptops. That is unless Microsoft decides to do something about the requirement: many Windows 10 users said they would upgrade if Microsoft tweaked it. You can, of course, bypass the requirement, but it’s risky.
In 2023, Windows 11 had over 400 million users, which was still insufficient even to reach Windows 10’s 1 billion users. However, given the latter will be out of support by the end of the year (although you can extend the security support for three more years, you’ll have to pay), everyone is wondering if Windows 11 will make it.
That’s hard to answer: Windows 11’s AI capabilities and bloatware are not exciting to many users. At the same time, the operating system is excellent for gaming and productivity, and newer PCs can perform well on these tasks.
40 million users updated to Windows 11 in January alone, and if this continues, then by October, Windows 11 should surpass Windows 10 and become the most dominant version on the market. Microsoft will most likely encourage users to do it by offering specific perks or maybe even lowering the requirements for Windows 11.
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