The failure of Windows 11: it is only installed on 1 in 6 PCs

There’s a lot of talk about Android fragmentation, but Windows isn’t much better. Especially in the case of Windows 11.

According to Statcounter statistics, only 15.4% of PCs have installed Windows 11 in October 2022. That’s barely 1 in 6 PCs. A very low figure, considering that it is a free update.

Windows 11 It was launched on October 5, 2021. An operating system that nobody expected, after Microsoft said that there would be no more Windows, because it had become a software as a service.

It’s been over a year since the release of Windows 11, and the implantation figures they are pretty depressing. It is only present in 15.4% of PCsin October 2022. Very far from the 71.29% Windows 10. At least it exceeds Windows 7 (9.61%), while the rest do not reach 3%.

They are statistics of statcounter, a firm that examines operating systems that record billions of web pages. When a website receives a visit, it stores the operating system that the device uses, so it is quite complete data. Here we can see the exact figures.

To say something good Windows 11 has increased its share by 1% in the last month. These are low figures for an operating system that is more than a year old, whose update is free, and which is already included in all new PCs, such as the recently announced Surface Laptop 5.

At least Microsoft continues to reign in the computer market: Windows is installed on 76% of all PCscompared to 15.7% for MacOS, and 2.6% for Linux.

In the global market for computing devices, Android is the most used system, with 42.37%, followed by Windows (30.11%), iOS (17.6%), MacOS (6.24%), and Linux ( 1.04%).

Why is Windows 11 not attracting users?

There are several reasons to explain the limited success of Windows 11.

The first are high system security requirements. It requires that the PC has the TPM 2.0 chip, which leaves out all PCs sold more than 4 or 5 years ago. That is, the vast majority.

Home users have no interest in buying that chip and installing it, they don’t know how to do it, they don’t know what can be done, or they have a laptop that is almost impossible to upgrade by hardware.

In the case of companies, installing the chip is expensive and complicated, because the computers have to be updated one by one. And renew the hardware, even more expensive.

On the other hand, the system has not provided great news either enough to be worth the change. Its interface is focused on laptops, and it is more limited to manage than Windows 10 if you use a desktop computer, with options incomprehensibly removed. Instead of keeping those options and letting the user choose, he has simply removed them.

For example, you can’t keep open folders separately on the taskbar, and regroup on top of each other. A real torture if you work with many folders at the same time. However, in Windows 10 you can separate them, if you want. Why don’t they leave the option to choose?

Many of the most notable improvements, such as Auto HDR, are focused on gaming, and others such as instant loading DirecStorage It has not yet been released, a year later.

Although the largest slab is performance loss. Benchmarks show that demanding games and apps run up to 10% slower on Windows 11 than on Windows 10, due to the many layers of security in the system.

The complaints have been so numerous that Microsoft has been forced to explain how to disable some security measures in Windows 11 to increase gaming performance.

He just turned a year old, but Windows 11 deployment is very low: is only in 1 in 6 PCs. And at the moment there are not many incentives to upgrade, given the prospect of a more limited interface Y lower performance. Something will have to be pulled out of Microsoft’s sleeve, to encourage users to abandon Windows 10.