Windows 11 has finally reached more than half of Windows 10's market share, with just over a year before support for Windows 10 ends., indicates a modest acceleration in the adoption of Windows 11. At the end of September 2024, Windows 10 had a 62.79 percent market share and Windows 11 accounted for 33.37 percent.
There are some unflattering comparisons to be made with how Windows 10 performed against its predecessors at the same point in its life cycle. Windows 8.1 finally dropped out of extended support on January 10, 2023. A year prior to that, Windows 10 accounted for an 81.15 percent market share compared to the 2.93 percent of Windows 8.1.
Later this week, three years will have elapsed since the release of Windows 11. After three years, Windows 10 was already significantly ahead of Windows 8.1 and accounted for a market share of 47.25 percent compared to Windows 7's 39.06 percent. The hope that users would opt to buy new hardware with the requisite CPU and Trusted Platform Module has proven unfounded since there is little in the latest version of Windows to drive users to it. For many, Windows 10 is just fine.The result was initially a near-static market share figure after the users who could upgrade did, before a trickle of device upgrades slowly eroded the lead of Windows 10.