November 4, 2022
Only 15.44% of PCs worldwide have Windows 11, the latest version of Windows, which represents a significant design deviation from Windows 10.
This means that while the two operating systems are very similar, the upgrade, Windows 11, has yet to gain traction among users, having gained only 1.83% of users in a month. In comparison, 71.29% are using Windows 10, a slight decrease from 71.88% in September.
Windows, which controls almost 76% of the global desktop operating system market, followed by OS X (15.7%) and Linux (2.6%), announced the release of Windows 11 to improve security and reliability, including hardware root of trust via Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0, Secure Boot, hypervisor-protected code integrity and hardware-enforced stack protection. Due to its hardware requirements, the release also managed to alienate a large number of people.
Despite these benefits, most companies have yet to migrate to Windows 11; they typically wait 18 months after the release of an operating system before upgrading business computers. The entire PC ecosystem is also closely monitoring the situation to see whether this will happen next year or whether companies want to use their current assets for an extended period of time in response to uncertain economic times.
Windows 7 is currently the third most popular operating system, with Windows 8.1 coming in fourth, followed by Windows 8 and Windows XP.
The sources for this piece include an article in TheRegister.
