Windows 11 has finally overtaken Windows 10 as the most used desktop OS

Microsoft has yet crossed an important milestone for Windows 11, months up of Windows 10’s extremity of enactment cutoff date. Stat Counter, spotted by Windows Central, present lists Windows 11 arsenic the astir utilized desktop operating strategy astir 4 years aft its release, with 52 percent of the market, compared to 44.59 percent for Windows 10.

Windows 11 became the most fashionable OS for PC gaming successful September, but wide adoption had inactive been lagging down Windows 10 until now. Leaked information successful October 2023 besides revealed Windows 11 was used by much than 400 cardinal devices at the time, a slower adoption gait than Windows 10 — which took conscionable a twelvemonth to scope 400 cardinal devices compared to Windows 11’s 2 twelvemonth period.

Part of the dilatory adoption is down to Windows 11’s hardware requirements. While Microsoft offered a escaped upgrade to Windows 10 users, millions of machines person been near behind owed to stricter CPU and information requirements. Microsoft has been trying to person the owners of these machines to upgrade their hardware successful bid to get Windows 11, sometimes with a full-screen prompt.

Windows 10 is owed to scope extremity of enactment connected October 14th, and Microsoft precocious revealed it would springiness distant a free twelvemonth of other information updates to consumers if they were consenting to alteration Windows Backup and sync their Documents folder to OneDrive. If you don’t privation to bash this, you’ll person to wage $30 for a twelvemonth of updates, oregon redeem 1,000 Microsoft Reward points.