Goodbye Windows 11 Users return to Windows 10 and Microsoft is in a big problem
Microsoft has a serious problem with Windows market share. In the November we just bid farewell to, Windows 11 lost to Windows 10 for the first time in a long time.
There is less than a year left until Windows 10 loses support from Microsoft, leaving millions of devices around the world unprotected, not only in terms of new features, but also in terms of vulnerabilities that can be exploited by hackers.
However, despite Microsoft's best efforts, it can't get Windows 11 on more computers than Windows 10, and that's a problem that's really hard to solve.
Statcounter has published the latest market trends regarding the presence of Windows operating system on active computers.
With the data released last November, there is a somewhat strange movement, as Windows 11 is down slightly and Windows 10 is up.
Windows 11 now has a market share of 34.94%, down 0.64 points from October. Windows 10, on the other hand, is up 0.88 points from October to 61.83%.
In terms of year-over-year growth, Windows 11 is up 8.31 points compared to last year when it was 26.63%.
Given the trends, it's actually quite worrying, because Windows 10 could continue to outpace Windows 11 for the next two years.
Microsoft is looking at several formulas to try to convince users to move to Windows 11.
However, unlike other OS leaps, users will have to invest a significant amount of money to upgrade to Windows 11. This is because there are millions of Windows 10 laptops that are not compatible with Windows 11, and users will prefer to stick with the old Windows 10 operating system rather than spending around $800 on average on a new computer.
This way, it is very likely that Windows 11 will not be able to overtake Windows 10 in market share for about two years, and perhaps by then we will already have Windows 12 on the market.