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

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]

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bus_factor Feb 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.

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anonymous111

The first time I heard the “every other” theory I was sceptical but it has held true for a very long time now.

They might do an 8.1 and mess with some features (remember when they had to bring back the tool bar)? But another release is likely needed to fix some of the Win 11 performance and bloat issues now.

They’ve cut too deep, for some good reasons, but at the cost of making everything slow.

^ Note I haven’t even talked about AI here.

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HobbitFoot Feb 2

It isn’t even just the performance and bloat issues or the AI.

As you hinted, Windows 11 made a lot of changes to the UI. I can’t think of a single change made which I liked as someone who has had to deal with Windows since before 95. Windows 11 felt like a downgrade from Windows 10.

You’ve got a lot of managers with purchasing authority who developed a ton of muscle memory on old Windows. The new UI changes have made Windows feel alien enough that you can’t use retraining costs as an excuse to keep with Windows.

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BananaIsABerry Feb 2

I think explorer and the desktop tray got a little better in terms of UI. I actually find myself liking the centered icons.

That said, I’ve tweaked a lot with openshell and fully replaced the awful start menu and search to fix a lot of the garbage.

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The_v Feb 2

Windows 11 UI is a downgrade from XP.

Windows 11 is also deeply unstable. I haven’t had this many program crashes, errors, and other bullshit since Vista and ME. Windows 10 had it’s annoying quirks but it was at least relatively stable.

I have saved myself the headaches with UI changes since the Win8 clusterfuck when installed a 3rd party taskbar/menu.