Almost one year since launch, Windows 11 isn’t going to plan for Microsoft

New stats have revealed that development for the newest and biggest OS from Microsoft is starting to tail off. In March Home windows 11 noticed its market share develop by simply 0.1 %, rising from 19.3 % in February 2022 to 19.4 %. This slowdown comes after a interval of quick development for the OS, with Home windows 11 seeing a 3.2 % development in customers again in February.

It stays to be seen whether or not this slowdown in development continues in April. If that is the case Microsoft could have to do one thing a bit totally different to attract in new customers.

As was the case when Home windows 10 first launched, stats from AdDuplex are exhibiting that loads of PC customers are nonetheless utilizing earlier variations of the OS as a substitute of upgrading to the newest construct.

The most well-liked model of Home windows available on the market is the Home windows 10 21H2 replace.

PCs operating this patch, which was first launched in November 2021, accounted for 28.5 % of Home windows machines world wide in March.

In second place is the Home windows 10 21H1 replace which was launched in Could 2021. PCs operating this construct account for 26.5 % of Home windows machines.

And based on AdDuplex, 25.6 % of different machines are operating even older variations of Home windows 10 – together with Home windows 10 1809 which was launched again in 2018.

This implies extra PC customers are selecting to run a construct of Home windows 10 that is over a yr previous than go for the newest model.

Microsoft, for its half, hasn’t revealed precisely how many individuals are operating Home windows 11.

However the Redmond-based tech large in its final replace stated 1.4billion machines are operating both Home windows 10 or Home windows 11, and that persons are upgrading to Home windows 11 at double the speed they did to Home windows 10.

This information was revealed in January, earlier than the newest slowdown in development in March was reported – which can point out that most individuals trying to improve to Home windows 11 have already come on board.

Whether or not alarm bells are ringing at Microsoft but about this slowdown in development stays to be seen. The Redmond-based tech large are used to it taking awhile for a brand new OS to overhaul an previous one, with Home windows 10 taking on three years to usurp Home windows 7 because the world’s hottest working system.

However one signal that the Home windows 11 launch is probably not going as precisely as hoped could also be present in a leak that emerged a couple of months in the past, which claimed that Microsoft had already begun work on Home windows 12.

Listening to in regards to the next-gen model of Home windows this early within the lifecycle of the present construct is particularly stunning, given leaks about Home windows 11 solely started to emerge the yr earlier than it was formally introduced.