Windows 10 holds 70.03% market share, while Windows 11 continues to decline

[NikoB]

If the OS market share is more than 25%, no sane (not malicious) browser manufacturer will refuse to support this version. And as long as there are current versions of browsers, most do not care about ephemeral "security", which in reality does not exist in any OS on the planet.

It all comes down to browser support and key software needed by a significant portion of users. Once it disappears, after about 1 year they are forced to switch to a new OS.

Thus, W10 will be relevant at least until the end of 2026 and around the same time official support for LTSB 2016 and LTSC 2021 will end. But the question is how will support be provided for LTSC 1809 (2018 with a 10-year update channel), support for which is stated until the end of 2028. This is it interesting point.

W11 is extremely slow on old hardware and consumes a lot of memory. At the same time, it does not have any significant advantages, but there are a lot of disadvantages. W11 LTSC will need to be evaluated when the final version comes out in the fall of 2024. There will be at least a 5-year update channel. In any case, on old hardware, W11 is not interesting until 2026 and most likely until 2029. And then we'll see...

[Hotz]

Windows 10 currently holds 70.03% of the market share. Windows 11, on the other hand, has seen another drop, from 26.68% in March to 25.65% in April.

Let's be realistic here. These are peanuts and will be history in very few months.

Because this exact same thing also happened in the past for Windows 10. There were a couple of months where Windows 10 market share lost some minor percentages and Windows 7 gained some percentages. Did it change the widespread adoption of Windows 10? Nope. Not at all. And Windows 10 wasn't great either at the beginning.

[NikoB]

And Windows 10 wasn't great either at the beginning.

It is still extremely bad as an OS, everyone has just accepted it. Is there competition and choice?

[Hotz]

... Is there competition and choice?

Not really.

[NikoB]

That is why the majority of the world's population who need a desktop or laptop will continue to use Windows, albeit in the form of pirated activation in more than 70% of cases.

Because there was and still is no real alternative to Windows, taking all factors into account.

M$ just needs to completely lose its reputation and any remaining trust (much like in the dollar), so that everyone rushes in a panic to look for other solutions.

This will only happen if M$ announces that it will stop developing Windows or remove compatibility with the entire x86 codebase. Why would they do this, cut the branch on which they (and the USA) are sitting globally? Moreover, I am 100% sure that Apple/Alphabet(Google)/M$/Intel/AMD/Qualcomm/Mediatek and other key companies are working closely with the NSA/CIA and in general with the US authorities to maintain geopolitical influence in the world through technological superiority and dependence on US technology. Therefore, even if the Indian Nadella decided to destroy Windows, he would simply be fired and kicked out, because it is not for him to decide these issues, but for the deep US authorities. As in the case of Intel and other key companies, they have not resolved any key issues for a long time without direct agreement with the US authorities or that top party in the US that really controls everything. This is only the appearance of independence of companies from the authorities; in reality, it has long been gone. Capitalism has long turned into imperialism for obvious reasons.