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Windows 11 market share falls despite Microsoft ad blitz | Windows 10, on the other hand, managed to grow its share of that market (www.theregister.com)

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 116 points 2 weeks ago (19 children)

I'll uh ... be over here continuing to use an OS that doesn't show me a full-screen ad.

[+] [email protected] -40 points 2 weeks ago (13 children)

All I have ever seen is a single sentence on the login screen promoting MS products. Do none of you still use Windows? Are you saying stuff like this based on memes?

[–] [email protected] 81 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

No, this is absolutely a thing that happens now. It came through in the last couple of updates. Sporadically it pops up a screen in your face like this:

I just got one on the little pseudo-netbook we use to run one of the barcode scanners at work the other day, despite this machine not even being "eligible" to run Windows 10.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

This hasn't happened to me but probably because my computer doesn't support Windows 11 (it doesn't support TPM)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Same here, but I did occasionally get a similar full screen reminding me of that fact and urging me to buy a new PC. I installed Mint instead.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Apparently there's ads for upgrading your computer to be able to run W11. I haven't run into them myself.

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