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.
well the market share of Windows 11 has risen significantly on my work laptop, and I can wholehearedly say, I understand why its global market share is falling… random freezes, random restarts, battery life sliced, random starting up from suspend. it’s not great.
meanwhile, Manjaro on my personal Lenovo laptop has been cutting edge with consistent updates for years.
Work computer just updated as well. Same dock and monitors but now when the computer wakes from sleep/hibernate the monitors attached to the dock just won’t come on about 80% of the time. So you have to unplug/replug in the dock to get the monitors to kick on. I can’t recall that being the case ever when using 10. Not a single time.
To make matters worse the first time it happened it wasn’t immediately obvious because the laptop monitor was blank. The login screen only shows on the primary monitor which is one of the external monitors. So the computer knows the monitors exist but for whatever reason can’t wake them up. Again never an issue before the update to 11.
I’m sure work loved me spending 3-4 hours mucking with stuff to unclusterfuck windows…our corporate machines still had the Xbox app installed. Thanks IT department! This was a custom image of win11 with all kinds of corporate branding bundled in.
I was wondering about that. I just got forced to run native Windows 11 by work, and one monitor in my multihead setup just never wakes up automatically, but my Linux install on same hardware has no issue.