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Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support. (www.windowscentral.com)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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According to Statcounter, Windows 11 held a 55.18% market share in October 2025. That share dropped to 53.7% in November and dropped again in December. Now, Windows 11 holds a 50.73% market share.

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-version-market-share/windows/desktop/worldwide

Many are rollback to Windows 10, but Linux is increasing as well.

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide

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[–] 109 points 7 months ago (6 children)

Why write this article in January when it's main source shows an increase of 12% again in that month?? If anything this article should be about how statscounter is a very unreliable metric. Honest journalism really is dead huh.

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  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Because a ton of people got new devices for Christmas with Win 11 pre-loaded. Prior to that, Win 11 adoption rates were declining. It's highly likely that future results will show Win 11 adoption continues to slide.

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I highly doubt 12% of the pc market got a new laptop for Christmas. But maybe a lot of corporations got new pc's for the 2026 budget to phase out windows 10? I still I find a 12% jump huge, especially in the current RAM shortage climate.

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Doesn't seem that crazy. I usually got about 4-8 years out of my laptops. So a little over 10% turn over makes sense to me statistically.

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