Windows 11 Finally Overtakes Windows 10 (theregister.com) 33
Windows 11 has finally overtaken the market share of its predecessor, with just three months remaining until Microsoft discontinues support for Windows 10. From a report: As of today, July's StatCounter figures show the market share of Windows 11 at 50.24 percent, with Windows 10 at 46.84 percent. It's a far cry from a year ago, when Windows 10 stood at 66.04 percent and Windows 11 languished at 29.75 percent.
Not by choice (Score:5, Insightful)
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You're right, not by choice, but not by lack of choice either. The reality is people couldn't give a flying fuck about their desktop OS. Yeah they are getting it with their new computer, but they weren't actively avoiding it previously either. Choosing an operating system is what a tiny subset of computer users do, and they are all here on Slashdot.
Re: Not by choice (Score:2)
Its almost always new computers .... (Score:3)
People buy a new computer, it comes with Windows 11. That's the only reason Windows 11 is increasing its market share.
And this differs from Windows 10 in what way? Or any other numerous incarnations of Windows.
Sales/Upgrades are slower because computers last much longer. The performance gains of a fews years more marginal than in the past, or irrelevant to most tasks to be performed.
My Win 10 computer is down. (Score:2)
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You can run explorer.exe from the task manager and that should relaunch the start menu. Just FYI.
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Re: High Contrast (Score:2)
Re: Try credible lies (Score:3, Informative)
The cited stats are Windows machines only. "What percent of Windows users are on 11?"
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The numbers are perfectly credible. You do however need to understand what they say. You do not. You're applying them for a completely different dataset than what is being shown. That's not them lying, that's you not understanding what you're reading.
Hint the title is: "Desktop Windows Version Market Share Worldwide" What distro of Linux and BSD are "Windows Versions"?
Still pathetic (Score:3)
And one look at Win11 shows why: This is the next lemmon from Microsoft.
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Honestly, for most users, they don't see a difference between Windows 10 and 11. Sure, there are a few style changes, but if you're not a technical user, you might not realize which OS you're using, if you sit down to a computer.
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So people do not notice their games running slower, for example? I very much doubt that.
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People who don't know the difference between Windows 10 and 11, don't play games on their Windows PC. They play dumb little phone games. The only thing most of them use their computers for, is the web browser, and they can't even tell you whether it's Chrome or Edge, or even what those names mean. Yeah, there are a lot of Windows users who are exactly that nontechnical.
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I've been using Windows 11 for so long, and in fast ring/beta/preview/insider channels, it's not the 'next' anything. It's more than 3 years old. With over a billion users it's not unexpected that you will get horrible reports of flaws. 0.1% of users is a million...
I pay no heed to anything about high contrast mode, or dual-boot problems, or my *&() doesn't work. My problems have been minimal and resolved as quickly as any version.
I'm guessing not many of you used Windows when it wasn't described with a
Windows 11 is Untrustworthy (Score:2)
Windows 11 Bluetooth is Still Trash (Score:3)
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What kind of a masochist uses Bluetooth file transfer? No really that has been truly painful on every platform ever created. There's a reason many devices these days (including things like phones and cameras) will use Bluetooth only to initiate a Wifi connection and then transfer that way.
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The persistent redesigning the UI just when you have finally figures out where the last change put the things you need daily is another.
If Google designed cars the brake pedal would go somewhere else every three months!
Now Using Linux more than Windows (Score:4)
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wow i hate fucking windows but use it for gaming and i used education edition, clicked all the rufus options fir windows install discs, then ran a debloater script. Then i fiddled with the settings.
This was because microsoft has gotten wise to the way i pirated windows 10 ltsc and i wanted to give it a shot before wrestling with maybe wrestling with proton edge cases for personal favorite games.
Not saying this is reasonable, it's the same as a medium effort linux install but windows 11 is fixable if someon
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Why would you pirate Windows 10, when MS gives the iso free for download, and if you don't register it just disables some of the MS malware?
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Cheap.
Before my employer sacked their field staff and became a software-only company, we were charging $15000 per seat per year, and enforcing the lease with a week's worth of value of cryptographic dongle.
I dread to think how they're dealing with Recall. Probably have to air gap the machines from the Internet. Because the data being processed and presented is just ever so slightly commercially valuable.
Microsoft needs to be held accountable (Score:3)
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Eventually your stud CPU will be 'old'. It may lack a feature. You will move on.
You bought Threadripper because it had something you wanted, and was supported by what you wanted to do. Enjoy it while you can. My current mail laptop is about 4 years old and does all I need as fast as I need it. I'm 3 revs behind, soon to be 4, but no need to replace it. My field laptop is 5 years old and on its third battery. Both do the job.
Your Threadripper CPU is no more than 7 years old. Your rig should have had TPM 2, t
What about that missing ~3% (Score:2)
Leaves you wondering about the 3% of systems still running Windows {95,98,XP,Vista,7,...}. Probably embedded systems, sigh.
Linux is becoming the only choice (Score:2)
It really doesn't make sense to use Windows or macOS these days. Hardware now outlasts software by entirely too long. If you want to get the most out of your hardware, Linux is pretty much the only choice.
Most people don't upgrade their hardware because it's faulty or too slow to actually do the tasks they need. They upgrade because Microsoft and Apple intentionally drop support and cripple things. It's downright wasteful. As more and more software becomes web apps it makes less sense to use MS or Apple in