Microsoft has lastly crossed an essential milestone for Home windows 11, months forward of Home windows 10’s finish of assist cutoff date. Stat Counter, noticed by Windows Central, now lists Home windows 11 as essentially the most used desktop working system practically 4 years after its launch, with 52 p.c of the market, in comparison with 44.59 p.c for Home windows 10.
Home windows 11 turned the most popular OS for PC gaming in September, however general adoption had nonetheless been lagging behind Home windows 10 till now. Leaked information in October 2023 additionally revealed Home windows 11 was used by more than 400 million devices on the time, a slower adoption tempo than Home windows 10 — which took only a 12 months to achieve 400 million units in comparison with Home windows 11’s two 12 months interval.
A part of the sluggish adoption is right down to Home windows 11’s {hardware} necessities. Whereas Microsoft provided a free improve to Home windows 10 customers, millions of machines have been left behind because of stricter CPU and safety necessities. Microsoft has been making an attempt to persuade the homeowners of those machines to improve their {hardware} with a purpose to get Home windows 11, typically with a full-screen prompt.
Home windows 10 is because of attain finish of assist on October 14th, and Microsoft lately revealed it could give away a free year of extra security updates to customers in the event that they have been keen to allow Home windows Backup and sync their Paperwork folder to OneDrive. In case you don’t need to do that, you’ll should pay $30 for a 12 months of updates, or redeem 1,000 Microsoft Reward factors.