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Windows 11 market share falls despite Microsoft ad blitz | Windows 10, on the other hand, managed to grow its share of that market (www.theregister.com)

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Despite Microsoft's push to get customers onto Windows 11, growth in the market share of the software giant's latest operating system has stalled, while Windows 10 has made modest gains, according to fresh figures from Statcounter.

This is not the news Microsoft wanted to hear. After half a year of growth, the line for Windows 11 global desktop market share has taken a slight downturn, according to the website usage monitor, going from 35.6 percent in October to 34.9 percent in November. Windows 10, on the other hand, managed to grow its share of that market by just under a percentage point to 61.8 percent.

The dip in usage comes just as Microsoft has been forcing full-screen ads onto the machines of customers running Windows 10 to encourage them to upgrade. The stats also revealed a small drop in the market share of its Edge browser, despite relentlessly plugging the application in the operating system.

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[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 81 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I work at an MSP and a lot of our clients have to follow specific security compliance standards. Because Windows 10 is eol soon, we've been slowly upgrading folks to 11. I die a little each time I do an upgrade. People, including my coworkers and I, are not happy with it overall, but nobody can do anything because ✨compliance standards✨

[–] jdeath@lemm.ee 9 points 3 weeks ago

thank goodness for bsd/mac/linux

[–] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Is Ubuntu compliant?

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 17 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

In the corporate world ? Generally not, because IT can't force group policy out using AD.

[–] bradd@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

One of the biggest hurdles, and one of the only reasons Windows is still alive. Linux doesn't have a decent AD alternative.

I think I heard some very large governments, maybe Germany, was going to completely abandon Windows soon. This will generate a ton of demand for an AD alternative so I'm excited to see what happens.

Until then you have ansible, or salt may be more suitable for workstations 🤷

[–] joe_cool@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

Oh there is policy, telemetry and lockdown software for Linux. My BYOD archlinux worked fine until a company I contract for rolled out their zero trust bollocks. They wanted me to install Ubuntu, Redhat or SLES and their spyware.
They now sent me a corporate Win11 laptop for remote access.

[–] ansiz@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I know executives don't tend to go for it but you could always get in a ESU for 3 years past the EoL date. That was semi popular with Windows 7.

[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

That involves money and clients don't want to do that lol. It's like pulling teeth to get them to replace shit