Windows 11 market share falls despite Microsoft ad blitz
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Only 10 months left until Windows 10 end of support and people still seem to prefer it

Despite Microsoft’s push to get customers onto Windows 11, growth in the market share of the software giant’s latest operating system has stalled, while Windows 10 has made modest gains, according to fresh figures from Statcounter.

This is not the news Microsoft wanted to hear. After half a year of growth, the line for Windows 11 global desktop market share has taken a slight downturn, according to the website usage monitor, going from 35.6 percent in October to 34.9 percent in November. Windows 10, on the other hand, managed to grow its share of that market by just under a percentage point to 61.8 percent.

The dip in usage comes just as Microsoft has been forcing full-screen ads onto the machines of customers running Windows 10 to encourage them to upgrade. The stats also revealed a small drop in the market share of its Edge browser, despite relentlessly plugging the application in the operating system.

  • umbrella@lemmy.mlEnglish
    42·
    8 days ago

    im forced to use it at work and holy shit. 11 is so heavy for no reason, 8gb of ram is not remotely enough anymore, even if you yank out some of the garbage. theres no apparent change in functionality to justify it.

    the ssd smart says its almost at its end, and i suspect its because its constantly swapping. paging file is always full, unless i set it to something big like 8+ gb

    • Zetta@mander.xyzEnglish
      26·
      8 days ago

      I’m pegged at 95% RAM usage all day at work 16 gigs and I’m not doing anything too heavy. Windows is a bloated gross mess

      • Dupree878@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        8 days ago

        And I can still run a 2010 MacBook with 4GB to do photo editing and render non HD video

        Bloat is too mild a word for Windows

      • whoisearth@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        8 days ago

        Same but I blame work. My surface tablet at home is vanilla windows professional and memory usage is fine with 16gb.

        That said I don’t use Chrome at home and Chrome is absolutely insane with memory consumption

        • jj4211@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          8 days ago

          Yeah, as much as Windows feels… subpar for my day to day vanilla, it really turns crappy with my corporate’s mandated load. System is constantly chewing on some bloat from one of the various ‘security’, monitoring, or fix management solutions that they have on this.

          Unfortunately, if a company pitches their extra crap as ‘enhancing security’, the execs just have to say yes, because to be an exec who ever said ‘no’ to more security is to put your job at peril. Even if three of that vendor’s competitors already got their equivalent solutions into the load already…

      • Xatolos@reddthat.comEnglish
        1·
        8 days ago

        Wow, what is running in your background though?

        I have Windows 11 and it uses a total of 5.6 GB of RAM (I’m also using a Surface Pro 7 if that matters) at idle. I would bring up task manager and see where all that RAM is going.

        • xapr [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          1·
          7 days ago

          5.6 GB RAM usage on idle, I presume on a fresh boot, is just outrageous for an OS, especially relative to 8 o 16 GB total RAM.

          • Xatolos@reddthat.comEnglish
            2·
            5 days ago

            Wait until you see what the new OSs will need soon. Windows Copilot+ PC, macOS with Apple Intelligence, and newer versions of Android all have a starting need of 16GB (for background AI processes that are done on device). I doubt they will have a small idle RAM footprint.

            (iPhone and iPad OS hasn’t been stated for their RAM requirements, but they never do.)

    • surph_ninja@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      8 days ago

      It’s just a hunch, but my suspicion is it’s already capturing a lot of data for Recall to process later after it’s launched.

      I can’t think of any other reasonable explanation for the severe performance decrease on Windows 11.

    • lud@lemm.eeEnglish
      46·
      8 days ago

      No, 8 GB is nothing these days. It’s not an enjoyable experience on Win 10, 12, Linux, or MacOS.

        • lud@lemm.eeEnglish
          12·
          8 days ago

          The 8 GB in my ThinkPad is pretty annoying. It’s usable but not enjoyable.

            • Revan343@lemmy.caEnglish
              1·
              6 days ago

              I would guess a heavy UI, and a couple heavy apps that they don’t close.

              I admittedly use xfce, which is much lighter than most, I wouldn’t want to run Gnome or KDE on this machine.

              Or I suppose I think I wouldn’t; I’ve been using lightweight desktop environments for a decade or so. I just assume the like Ubuntu or whatever default is going to be slower and RAM-heavy.

            • lud@lemm.eeEnglish
              1·
              7 days ago

              Opening a few apps fills it up very quickly.

              I even run Spotifyd and a cli UI for Spotify because I need to be conservative with my RAM.

              • umbrella@lemmy.mlEnglish
                1·
                6 days ago

                curious. im running all regular gui software and i usually only go over 8gb when im pushing it harder. the only time i do consistently is while gaming and even then im always below 16gb.

                what distro are you running? do you have KSM enabled?

      • umbrella@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        7 days ago

        its great on linux (regular distro, not particularly lightweight) and reasonable on windows 10 for me.

        unless you are pushing too many tabs and/or many heavy programs