"Earlier this year, Microsoft officially yanked the cord on Windows 10, ending support for an operating system that had been superseded by Windows 11 four years earlier. But the tech giant's controversial attempts to shoehorn AI into every aspect of the software appear to have turned off a staggering number of users from upgrading. While it's to be expected at this point that not everybody will have jumped at the opportunity to update their machine's operating system, the sheer scale of that refusal is staggering."
"As Forbes reports, a whopping 1 billion PCs are still running Windows 10 - despite half of them technically being eligible for an upgrade. During PC maker Dell's November quarterly earnings call, the company's COO, Jeff Clarke, admitted that "we have about 500 million of them capable of running Windows 11 that haven't been upgraded," referring to all PCs, and not just Dell machines."
"In other words, those who own a whopping third of the estimated 1.5 billion PCs worldwide are outright refusing to upgrade, indicating Microsoft is seriously struggling to woo them. That's likely due to a number of reasons, from simple frustrations over a tweaked and unfamiliar interface to the need to run software that isn't Windows 11 compatible - and annoying ads."
Microsoft ended support for Windows 10 earlier this year after releasing Windows 11 four years prior. About 1 billion PCs continue to run Windows 10. Approximately 500 million of those machines are technically eligible to upgrade to Windows 11 but have not done so. Dell's COO Jeff Clarke highlighted the 500 million unupgraded eligible PCs during a quarterly earnings call. Reasons for refusal include an unfamiliar interface, software compatibility issues, intrusive ads, and resistance to Microsoft’s expanded AI integration. Windows leadership has described the future OS as an "agentic OS" that bakes AI features directly into the system.
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