Some say slow and steady wins the race. Windows 11 certainly seems to believe in this mantra. Microsoft’s latest and greatest OS has climbed past the 23% market share mark.
Eight months after launch, the operating system is now almost the second most popular version of Windows. It continued its slow pick-up during the months of May and June 2022, taking two months to reach 3.4% percentage points.
It went from 19.7% in April of this year to 23.1% in June.
These latest figures have come from the advertising network AdDuplex, which has just published its latest report about Windows 11 and 10 shares. In a new color scheme, a combination of blue and yellow to show support for Ukraine.
Although it did not report on the share of Windows 11 last month, the firm returns with figures for the operating system for this.
And, well, things are glacially slow here.
Despite its growth, Windows 11 could not surpass Windows 10 21H1 to become the second most popular OS release. Windows 10 version 21H1 holds 23.9% of the market, though it is down from the high of 26.4% in April.
Windows 10 21H2, on the other hand, is number one, with 38.2%, up from 35% in April.
This version of Windows 10 gained more users because Microsoft recently ended support for Windows 10 20H2 on May 10 and forced updating this user base to the latest release.
Windows 11, meanwhile, remains an optional upgrade—that too, on supported hardware. This means that it is ultimately up to the users to decide whether to stay on Windows 10 or upgrade to the latest operating platform.
Perhaps the first feature update for Windows 11, which is due for release very soon, will influence this decision.
