A December 2023 report from network traffic analysis platform Statcounter showed that Windows 11's market share remained relatively unchanged despite Microsoft's release of version 23H2 of the operating system.
Statcounter claims that almost one in every four Windows PCs connected to the Internet are running Windows 11.
In December 2023, Windows 11 lost a small portion of its user base, falling from 26.63% to 26.54%.
With Windows 10 expected to expire in less than two years, customers are slowly migrating from older Windows 10 operating systems to Windows 11.
Hundreds of millions of customers are still using Windows 10, representing approximately 67.46% of all Windows users, a decrease of 0.56% from November 2023.
Windows 11 and higher-than-expected hardware requirements have led to significant market fragmentation.
With the launch of the next generation of operating systems later this year, Microsoft will have a difficult decision to make.
The company has not yet decided on the name of the next generation operating system. It may choose to call it Windows 12 and help its partners' marketing departments sell more devices, or it may choose to avoid further fragmentation by sticking with Windows. 12. Change. Current brand.
Older versions of Windows, which are now discontinued, still have a large number of users. Windows 7 has a market share of 3.34% while Windows 8.1 has a market share of 1.66%.
The market share of Windows XP, which Microsoft stopped supporting ten years ago, is 0.64%.
Windows 10 will join the ranks of current unsupported operating systems in October 2025, though Microsoft will give users an additional two years of paid extended security updates.
Regular consumers can sign up for the enhanced security plan, though it's unclear how much Microsoft plans to charge for it.
Regardless of the price, the end of support for Windows 10 and its paid updates could become a big problem.