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Windows 11 market share falls despite Microsoft ad blitz | Windows 10, on the other hand, managed to grow its share of that market (www.theregister.com)
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Despite Microsoft's push to get customers onto Windows 11, growth in the market share of the software giant's latest operating system has stalled, while Windows 10 has made modest gains, according to fresh figures from Statcounter.

This is not the news Microsoft wanted to hear. After half a year of growth, the line for Windows 11 global desktop market share has taken a slight downturn, according to the website usage monitor, going from 35.6 percent in October to 34.9 percent in November. Windows 10, on the other hand, managed to grow its share of that market by just under a percentage point to 61.8 percent.

The dip in usage comes just as Microsoft has been forcing full-screen ads onto the machines of customers running Windows 10 to encourage them to upgrade. The stats also revealed a small drop in the market share of its Edge browser, despite relentlessly plugging the application in the operating system.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Sounds like Linux but worse. Got my dad on Mint and all he ever uses is a browser and mail program (2nd one is optional)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

All my mom does is browser and Office365. I tried to get her into LibreOffice and I saw her suffering through it for some time and decided to put her out of her misery by MAS'ing her Office.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Believe it or not my pops is readonably tech savvy. He was an engineer and does industrial control automation, and there are a lot of software suites for that which are firmly Windows only. Hardware license dongles and the whole bit. Our chances of getting that to run in Wine are below zero.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

VM with one dedicated usb hub passed thru?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Is that because he can't figure out how to do fuck all in Linux?

Me too

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

Linux: Cause you're just gonna use an Internet browser anyway.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Just download Steam, it'll do the rest.