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Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support. (www.windowscentral.com)
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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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[–] bus_factor@lemmy.world 154 points 3 days ago (50 children)

I imagine this is why MS is finally backtracking a bit on the aggressive pushing of AI in every app. They're doing Clippy all over again, but OS-wide this time.

Just impressive how hard they managed to screw the pooch here. Have they forgotten that every other Windows release is universally hated? They had a good thing going until they discontinued Windows 10 before Windows 12 was out. Now they'll probably need to rush out another version, because the name Windows 11 is forever tainted.

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I liked Clippy. I hate AI

[–] Randynippletwist@lemmynsfw.com 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

📎I see you are nostalgic for your youth and how programs were tools and not spyware to track and target you. Maybe I can help with that 👮‍♀️👮‍♀️👮🏽👮🏽🚓🚓🚁🚁

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