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Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support. (www.windowscentral.com)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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

Many are rollback to Windows 10, but Linux is increasing as well.

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide

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[–] 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    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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