HomeWorldDataIt has taken 3 years for Windows 11 to reach only one third of Windows market share. MS has only one year left to make 11 somehow overtake 10 enough, otherwise ending 10’s support that early will be unjustifiable.
It has taken 3 years for Windows 11 to reach only one third of Windows market share. MS has only one year left to make 11 somehow overtake 10 enough, otherwise ending 10’s support that early will be unjustifiable.
October 10, 2024
It has taken 3 years for Windows 11 to reach only one third of Windows market share. MS has only one year left to make 11 somehow overtake 10 enough, otherwise ending 10’s support that early will be unjustifiable.
Posted by TheInsane103
19 comments
Not surprising when windows 11 doesn’t “officially” support a lot of existing hardware.
Microsoft is going to need to drag a pretty big carrot in front of me in order to convince me to upgrade.
They always push these things out anyway. Even when they’re ahead of things they end up extending support.
Win10 is their product. They don’t need to justify ending its support.
That’s what happens when you rease an OS that doesn’t support most computers out there.
Honestly it’s a bit of a mess.. task bar is missing a massive amount of customization it used to have. They still after all these years haven’t replaced control panel even though they have tried and tried it still hasn’t reached feature parity. It can be buggy here and there. I still don’t get there taskbar justifications on why you can’t customize it. It’s been like that since windows 95 and it feels like another partial windows 8 situation where they are just ignoring feedback.
Overall, I regret moving to Win 11. In the ways I use it, it has less overall functionality, and more annoyance. Unfortunately, that’s what came on my last computer purchase, and it doesn’t suck quite enough to make it worth reinstalling to Win 10.
Every time I see an ad appear on my task bar, in my start menu, whatever, I hope a rabid mongoose bites every microsoft executive on the nutsack.
Ending support for Win10 and creating enormous cost extended support contracts for Businesses that refuse to transfer is the right move for them.
Giving fucks about gamers that want to stick to old hardware or OS’s for a couple extra fps isn’t their problem.
The justification for ending 10’s support is to encourage everyone to upgrade to an actually (modestly but substantially) secure system design, finally, at long last.
Windows 11 is just worse. They keep piling on layers of crap that makes it feel more like a sketchy phone OS than one for a PC. It also feels more invasive while simultaneously being less responsive. I’m not usually an “older is better” type of guy, but I think for operating systems we don’t need to change things up much from windows 10.
What a sensationalist title.
There’s nothing “unjustifiable” about ending support. Win 10 is a decade old product, and consumer usage does not dictate what they’re beholden to support. In fact, 33% in the first three years is *great* adoption compared to previous versioning – many people skipped previous versions *entirely* but Win7 is down to less than 3% and ~97% of all Windows users are on a *supported* version of the OS (LTSC contracts and industrial usage aside).
Like I get people want to hate on Win11, but these numbers dont say what you claim they say.
I’m just waiting for Windows 12 which will unfuck a lot of what Windows 11 fucked.
Also, Windows 11 essentially bricks Windows Mixed Reality headsets. I know it’s a tiny fraction of the user base, but losing compatibility with hardware that works on previous versions of Windows is less than ideal.
Work in tech.
Part of what I do is to develop business cases for businesses to move from Win10 to Win11.
Microsoft has certainly made that as hard as possible. It’s the case with a majority of their product and service line.
Like hey what’s this do Microsoft? “It enhances workplace collaboration through facilitating meaningful engagement”. Like what the fuck is that?
Do people even upgrade Windows? I’ve only ever gotten a new version of Windows when I got a new computer. At any rate, Windows seems to get worse and worse every update since XP. They keep changing stuff for no reason and adding stuff with no purpose. An operating system should be simple and mostly working in the background, but each new version of Windows is more complex and in your face.
They need to lower the requirements, because non-techies will not be able to figure out how to do it at home.
They’re super aggressive at pushing me to upgrade, but I still can’t move the damn taskbar.
If you want me to upgrade, at least give me the same basic features I already rely on. They bring in almost 250 billion dollars per year, you’re telling me that re-writing the taskbar with all the normal features is too expensive? Unbelievable.
This is the first time since the early 2000s that I’m seriously considering switching to Linux.
Honestly, I dropped Windows for Linux and never looked back. It’s only getting worse now, what with Recall being a mandatory part of the OS for every device very soon. Of course, you can uninstall it or tweak settings, but the former is probably going to be pointless, because updating your OS may (or may not, who knows) result in the re-installation of Recall, as the OS has historically done with its other boilerplate/baked-in software. Although, I’d imagine that, if you were to tweak it to be at its least intrusive, those settings may persist across forced re-installs. Regardless, it’s such an annoying OS to deal with. W10 wasn’t perfect, but it was better than W11; at the very least, when it comes to direction.
How funny is it that win 7 has almost 5 times the user base of 8 and 8.1? Or that 8.1 barely has any more users than WINXP
I don’t mind Win11 at all. It has run well and worked well for me. We have it installed on 3 PCs at our house currently. I have a couple of PCs that didn’t get upgraded to 11 simply because they are old and don’t have the required hardware.
I have been using PCs since the 1980’s and I think I have heard people complain that the latest version of OS is horrible and is ruining everything so many times that now it’s just noise. It happens like clockwork. I think mostly people just can’t handle change very well.
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Not surprising when windows 11 doesn’t “officially” support a lot of existing hardware.
Microsoft is going to need to drag a pretty big carrot in front of me in order to convince me to upgrade.
They always push these things out anyway. Even when they’re ahead of things they end up extending support.
Win10 is their product. They don’t need to justify ending its support.
That’s what happens when you rease an OS that doesn’t support most computers out there.
Honestly it’s a bit of a mess.. task bar is missing a massive amount of customization it used to have. They still after all these years haven’t replaced control panel even though they have tried and tried it still hasn’t reached feature parity. It can be buggy here and there. I still don’t get there taskbar justifications on why you can’t customize it. It’s been like that since windows 95 and it feels like another partial windows 8 situation where they are just ignoring feedback.
Overall, I regret moving to Win 11. In the ways I use it, it has less overall functionality, and more annoyance. Unfortunately, that’s what came on my last computer purchase, and it doesn’t suck quite enough to make it worth reinstalling to Win 10.
Every time I see an ad appear on my task bar, in my start menu, whatever, I hope a rabid mongoose bites every microsoft executive on the nutsack.
Ending support for Win10 and creating enormous cost extended support contracts for Businesses that refuse to transfer is the right move for them.
Giving fucks about gamers that want to stick to old hardware or OS’s for a couple extra fps isn’t their problem.
The justification for ending 10’s support is to encourage everyone to upgrade to an actually (modestly but substantially) secure system design, finally, at long last.
Windows 11 is just worse. They keep piling on layers of crap that makes it feel more like a sketchy phone OS than one for a PC. It also feels more invasive while simultaneously being less responsive. I’m not usually an “older is better” type of guy, but I think for operating systems we don’t need to change things up much from windows 10.
What a sensationalist title.
There’s nothing “unjustifiable” about ending support. Win 10 is a decade old product, and consumer usage does not dictate what they’re beholden to support. In fact, 33% in the first three years is *great* adoption compared to previous versioning – many people skipped previous versions *entirely* but Win7 is down to less than 3% and ~97% of all Windows users are on a *supported* version of the OS (LTSC contracts and industrial usage aside).
Like I get people want to hate on Win11, but these numbers dont say what you claim they say.
I’m just waiting for Windows 12 which will unfuck a lot of what Windows 11 fucked.
Also, Windows 11 essentially bricks Windows Mixed Reality headsets. I know it’s a tiny fraction of the user base, but losing compatibility with hardware that works on previous versions of Windows is less than ideal.
Work in tech.
Part of what I do is to develop business cases for businesses to move from Win10 to Win11.
Microsoft has certainly made that as hard as possible. It’s the case with a majority of their product and service line.
Like hey what’s this do Microsoft? “It enhances workplace collaboration through facilitating meaningful engagement”. Like what the fuck is that?
Do people even upgrade Windows? I’ve only ever gotten a new version of Windows when I got a new computer. At any rate, Windows seems to get worse and worse every update since XP. They keep changing stuff for no reason and adding stuff with no purpose. An operating system should be simple and mostly working in the background, but each new version of Windows is more complex and in your face.
They need to lower the requirements, because non-techies will not be able to figure out how to do it at home.
They’re super aggressive at pushing me to upgrade, but I still can’t move the damn taskbar.
If you want me to upgrade, at least give me the same basic features I already rely on. They bring in almost 250 billion dollars per year, you’re telling me that re-writing the taskbar with all the normal features is too expensive? Unbelievable.
This is the first time since the early 2000s that I’m seriously considering switching to Linux.
Honestly, I dropped Windows for Linux and never looked back. It’s only getting worse now, what with Recall being a mandatory part of the OS for every device very soon. Of course, you can uninstall it or tweak settings, but the former is probably going to be pointless, because updating your OS may (or may not, who knows) result in the re-installation of Recall, as the OS has historically done with its other boilerplate/baked-in software. Although, I’d imagine that, if you were to tweak it to be at its least intrusive, those settings may persist across forced re-installs. Regardless, it’s such an annoying OS to deal with. W10 wasn’t perfect, but it was better than W11; at the very least, when it comes to direction.
How funny is it that win 7 has almost 5 times the user base of 8 and 8.1?
Or that 8.1 barely has any more users than WINXP
I don’t mind Win11 at all. It has run well and worked well for me. We have it installed on 3 PCs at our house currently. I have a couple of PCs that didn’t get upgraded to 11 simply because they are old and don’t have the required hardware.
I have been using PCs since the 1980’s and I think I have heard people complain that the latest version of OS is horrible and is ruining everything so many times that now it’s just noise. It happens like clockwork. I think mostly people just can’t handle change very well.