ekZeppFeb 2

Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support.

https://lemmy.world/post/42553015

Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support. - Lemmy.World

According to Statcounter, Windows 11 held a 55.18% market share in October 2025. That share dropped to 53.7% in November and dropped again in December. Now, Windows 11 holds a 50.73% market share. https://gs.statcounter.com/os-version-market-share/windows/desktop/worldwide [https://gs.statcounter.com/os-version-market-share/windows/desktop/worldwide]

Show threadbus_factorFeb 2

I imagine this is why MS is finally backtracking a bit on the aggressive pushing of AI in every app. They’re doing Clippy all over again, but OS-wide this time.

Just impressive how hard they managed to screw the pooch here. Have they forgotten that every other Windows release is universally hated? They had a good thing going until they discontinued Windows 10 before Windows 12 was out. Now they’ll probably need to rush out another version, because the name Windows 11 is forever tainted.

Show threadDamage
It’s not just AI, W11 is slow and unfriendly in general
Feb 2 at 11:54amWeb
Show threadUnspecificGravityFeb 2
Yep. Everything that runs in windows 10 runs worse on Windows 11 and y are getting nothing in return. My work PC can barely manage a big spreadsheet now.
Show threadDamageFeb 2
I use VMs to program industrial PLCs and I find it outrageous that performance today is worse than what it was 10 years ago with the same software
Show threadBuddahrifficFeb 3

Yeah, for a while I was looking for any benefits to moving from win 10 to 11. 7 to 10 had kernel and scheduler improvements, for example.

Only ones I could find were the virtual desktop support (though I had an alternative desktop back in the XP or Vista days that supported that, so not really groundbreaking), and WSL, which I didn’t have any use cases for.

Other than that, it was just shit I didn’t want. Copilot, recall, more UI changes that don’t really add anything (on my work laptop where I didn’t have a choice, first thing I did was go into the UI options and undo as much as I could). One of the things I used to like about windows was that it wasn’t a mac, but the UI changes look like that’s their inspiration. The inspired folks porbably all left already.

Show threadDamageFeb 3

Only ones I could find were the virtual desktop support (though I had an alternative desktop back in the XP or Vista days that supported that, so not really groundbreaking), and WSL, which I didn’t have any use cases for.

Wait, what do you mean? 10 had virtual desktops and WSL (LSW!) too

Show threadBuddahrifficFeb 3
So yeah, they built a new product and tried to force everyone to use it, when it had no improvements for the users whatsoever. And surprise, no one is excited to use it.