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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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[–] MinoriMirariRProductions@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Microsoft just wants our wallets lol.

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That's a surprisingly large increase, wow. I switched back in 2017 and I've been using it ever since, but that's good to see other people are making the switch too.

[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 72 points 2 days ago (1 children)

People upgrading to Windows 11 be like:

[–] RamRabbit@lemmy.world 42 points 2 days ago

This was me. Hit the update to 11 button because I have always liked new things. About a week later went back to 10, then about a year ago saw the writing on the wall and jumped ship to Mint. Shoulda done it earlier!

[–] aliser@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago

glad I switched to Linux, Microslop's current state is a disaster. yes it randomly implodes sometimes, mainly by my fault, but at least I can rollback! no more headache of forced updates.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I like Windows 11. But only as a thoroughly neutered, disposable “secondary” OS to dual boot with Linux, to the extent that I could wipe my Windows partition without a care.

If I had to use Windows 11 as my only OS, I’d pull my hair out. Same with desktop Linux TBH. There’s stuff that’s just painful in both ecosystems.

[–] bskm@feddit.nu 3 points 1 day ago

I share this opinion. Both OS have their strength. Haven't used Windows in a long time though. Don't really know where to get it any more?

[–] bus_factor@lemmy.world 154 points 2 days ago (27 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.

[–] kboos1@lemmy.world 136 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (16 children)

The thing that's driving me away from windows is how pushy it's gotten. Forced updates, ads, AI, OneDrive, and subscriptions. I just want to be able to turn on MY computer and do what I want or need without having my guard up that I can't trust my home PC with my privacy.

Windows 11 is ok, but is frustrating to use and I can't trust it not to screw with settings and there seems to be something annoying added instead of something useful with every update. I also hate the Settings menu, it's like an unhelpful layer between you and Control Panel the eventually will take you to the same place but took 5 more clicks and searching through drop downs for a link to what you needed.

[–] Takapapatapaka@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 67 points 2 days ago (1 children)

+1. I ragequit windows when it reinstalled Teams during an OS update, just after i uninstalled it.

[–] bus_factor@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I discovered that there's a separate application which just reinstalls Teams all the time. I don't remember the name, but it had Teams in the name. After I uninstalled that it finally stopped popping up.

[–] techt@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/answers/questions/5605606/how-to-stop-ms-teams-launching-at-startup-and-rein

Apparently:

This behavior is usually caused by two things:

A background installer from Microsoft Office called the Teams Machine-Wide Installer, which automatically reinstalls Teams for each user.
Windows 11’s built-in Chat feature, which is powered by Teams and may reinstall the app during updates or restarts.

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[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 30 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Win10 LTSC IOT has support until like 2032, and doesn't have any of that pushy bullshit. It's free to pirate btw.

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[–] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I switched to linux at the end of last year too! I am part of that increase and i like it.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I switched to Linux when Windows 7 became EoL.

Anyone paying attention to what they were doing with 10, knew what would be coming with 11.. and somehow its even worse than expected.. thanks to the sudden appearance of the greatest environmental disaster of our time.. AI.

[–] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I was too scared to move to linux at the time. It was always something i had many misconceptions about, that only people with specialist knowledge could use and that if i wanted anything to work i would need to know how to code at an advanced level.

I cant speak for then but now at least i have found that the communities are incredible, loads of work is being done to get everything to work and easy to set up. Github is amazing and i am learning slowly to use and love linux.

So far i have only worked with raspberry pis so raspiOS and linux Mint cinnamon. But i am going to be getting a small PC to test different linux distros on until i find the best one for me. Although Mint has been great so far.

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[–] Decq@lemmy.world 110 points 2 days 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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[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 82 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Clickbait bullshit.

The source shows that Windows 11 usage has been steadily climbing for a long time, including in January - the latest data available - but presumably that didn't fit their narrative so they ignored all the data except the data single point that they liked which corresponds to the month where every business shuts down for a week.

Statcounter shows that not only is Windows use increasing, but also that Windows 11's share is too.

I don't expect anyone here to be happy about these things - I certainly can't say I am - but pretending the Windows is in the middle of an epic downfall when it actually appears to be doing fine won't help anyone except Microsoft.

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[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 42 points 2 days ago

Its the first time my peers are actually asking me about switching to linux. Sweden is an extremely techbro country, which i say because they have all the newest gadgets and then cant open a file for fucks sake.

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[–] lautan@lemmy.ca 31 points 2 days ago (18 children)

I been switching everyone to Linux, specifically Mint. It's good enough now for whatever.

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[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 27 points 2 days ago

Brand new windows measurably losing ground to it's prior unsupported edition and Linux is fucking wild.

[–] ClassyHatter@sopuli.xyz 34 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

Windows 11 market share went from 55% on October 2025 to 62% on January 2026. That's an increase of 7 percentage units, not a drop of 5 percentage units.

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[–] Scrunge@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

That seems so strange. Why would that happen so late?

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

despite

Misspelled "Because"

[–] anticurrent@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Please Stop using statcounter as a reliable source. Their numbers are absolutely wack.

Look at the recent surge in win7 pcs, that no economical data can back up, if you look at win7 stats of some countries you will find some weird spikes that died out this last month. why go from an os that has lost security updates to an older os that today's software can't run on anymore