Windows 10 doesn’t have much time left. Support is scheduled to end on October 14, 2025, after which Microsoft will stop developing and distributing security patches. Because of the security holes that the developers will not fix, then using this system becomes a bit of a gamble.
Microsoft offers only one solution to this problem: upgrading to the newer Windows 11, which will receive security updates as the current version. However, convincing users to upgrade may be more difficult than it might seem – a year and a half before the final dot, Windows 10 is used by twice as many users as Windows 11. web XDA Developers.
Twice as many Windows 10 users
Information about the number of users are based on StatCounter data, which is a website analytics tool that allows website owners and administrators to track and analyze visitor behavior. One of the monitored data is information about the operating system used by users.
She section with information about the share of operating systems it can be read that the most frequently used system was Android, which took a bite of 43.72% of the imaginary pie in February of this year. Second are Windows devices, whose users made up 27.43% of visitors, and third place belongs to iOS with 17.82%.
If we look for Windows users onlythen one can observe the slightly decreasing share of Windows 10 and the very slowly growing Windows 11. While the version with the number ten was used in February of this year 67,26 % Windows users, in the case of Elevens it was jen 28,16 %i.e. less than half.
A problem not only for users, but also for Microsoft
Even more worrying is the fact that this trend is literally changing at a snail’s pace. About 6% of Windows 10 users have upgraded to Windows 11 within a year. And that’s a pitifully small number considering the end of support is fast approaching.
Microsoft at the same time is preparing big news in the field of artificial intelligence, starring his Copilot. The company wants to use this situation as a springboard to become a major leader in operating systems based on artificial intelligence, but the reluctance of users to upgrade stands in the way.
If Microsoft can’t get people to migrate, the impact of the new features will be greatly dampened. If Microsoft is betting that people will subscribe to Copilot Pro, which can become another source of its income, its expectations may miss the mark.
What can Microsoft do about it?
If Microsoft wants people to move to Windows 11 and take advantage of the new AI features it has planned, they have to fight the reasons why people stay with Windows 10. And there are still quite a few reasons. One of the most common is inadequate hardware.
At the same time, Windows 11 has relatively strict hardware requirements – for example, they require TPM 2.0 support. Microsoft probably expected people to respond to this information by either upgrading their processor or buying a new computer, but it seems that the appeal of Windows 11 is not strong enough to convince customers to spend money.
As users continue to use Windows 10 despite its impending end, Microsoft has a tough decision to make. Will he work to move them without TPM 2.0 support, or will he leave the Windows 10 user base alone and let the threat of missing security patches force them to upgrade? We’ll have to wait a few more months for that.
2024-03-08 16:45:11
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