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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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[–] LavenderDay3544@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I sense 12 coming soon if MS wants to EOL 10 without losing customers.

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm just acclimating myself to Linux and attempting to learn how to get Wine working. I'm just done with this shit.

[–] Turret3857@infosec.pub 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Feel free to DM if you want 1 on 1 support. Ive been making the switch for almost 4 years now.

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Thanks! I will definitely do that. I'm not new to Linux but it's been around 20 years since I last did anything with distros and I remember Wine being finicky as hell. Hopefully it has been somewhat tamed in the last 20 years. I'm starting basic AF with Ubuntu, though I did grab a copy of Mint to play with.

[–] Turret3857@infosec.pub 1 points 3 weeks ago

Thats fair. I use Fedora myself but Wine should be a lot easier than you remember lol. For me its been as simple as adding the repo and installing, then most of my Windows programs were plug and play :P I dont run any adobe or MS office but the alternatives are pretty good once you get acclimated to them

[–] LavenderDay3544@lemmy.world -4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Wine doesn't support everything and is still broken for a lot of things.

[–] BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

11.1. Like 8.1.

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

8.1 was actually a massive improvement though, I doubt they're even capable of pulling that off for 11, much less willing. 11 is flawed deeply to the core, 8 was "only" flawed on the surface (UI etc.)

[–] GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Lots and lots of people went on the 98 to XP to 7 to 10 path, skipping Me, Vista, and 8. No reason that pattern can't continue.