Around 500 million PCs are holding off upgrading to Windows 11, says Dell

Windows users are transitioning to Windows 11 astatine a slower complaint than the upgrade to Windows 10. Microsoft’s 10-year-old operating system, which conscionable deed the extremity of enactment phase, is inactive proving fashionable among consumers and businesses. Dell revealed this week that astir 500 cardinal machines are susceptible of upgrading to Windows 11, but are sticking with Windows 10 instead.

“We person astir 500 cardinal of them susceptible of moving Windows 11 that haven’t been upgraded,” said Dell COO Jeffrey Clarke connected a Q3 net call earlier this week, referring to the wide PC market, not conscionable Dell’s portion of machines. “And we person different 500 cardinal that are 4 years aged that can’t tally Windows 11.” He sees this arsenic an accidental to usher customers towards the latest Windows 11 machines and AI PCs, but warns that the PC marketplace is going to beryllium comparatively level adjacent year.

It’s the archetypal clip we’ve heard that arsenic galore arsenic 500 cardinal machines are holding disconnected upgrading to Windows 11, and that a akin magnitude simply can’t. Microsoft tightened its hardware requirements for Windows 11, leaving down millions of PCs that were sold implicit the past decade.

I expected millions of consumers to instrumentality with Windows 10 if they couldn’t upgrade owed to the hardware requirements, but Microsoft’s decade-old OS is intelligibly a batch stickier among user and commercialized PCs than I thought.

Dell’s Windows 11 upgrade numbers travel conscionable a week aft Windows main Pavan Davuluri said that “nearly a cardinal radical trust connected Windows 11.” It’s not wide what trust means here, arsenic Microsoft has typically provided monthly instrumentality numbers successful the past.