According to figures from Statcounter, Windows 11 has continued the months-long trend of slightly increasing market share, while that of Windows 10 slides. For August 2024, the stats service recorded a month-on-month sub-one percent uptick for Windows 11 to 31.63 percent. Windows 10's share dropped by a similar amount to 64.14 percent.
There are several reasons why users are steering clear of Microsoft's latest OS. One is the hardware requirements, which rendered hardware that would otherwise be perfectly capable of running Windows 11 instantly obsolete.
Microsoft marketeers might mumble something about AI, but many businesses have yet to see the huge productivity gains promised by purveyors of the tech, and others have hit pause on deployments of tools such as Microsoft Copilot amid fears over data governance and inadvertent surfacing of confidential information.
Even a supposed killer feature, Windows Recall, was previously yanked due to data security and privacy fears. It might turn up later this year after first being checked out by Windows Insiders.
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