October survey puts Windows 11 adoption at just 15 percent worldwide

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This is no surprise since, by most accounts, W11 sucks. It's backwards compatibility is so bad that some games simply refuse to run on it. Whenever I have a version of Windows that's stable, I cling to it for dear life until Microsoft manages to fix the problems that they create with the new version.

I held on to XP Pro SP3 until Vista became Windows 7 for obvious reasons. Then I held on to W7 Ultimate x64, refusing to adopt W8 because I saw it on my sister's craptop and not only was it BUTT-UGLY compared to W7, I absolutely HATED the "Metro Screen" aspect of it. Funny as it sounds, I pronounced W8 as "WAIT". I didn't initially want to adopt W10 but since AMD said that Ryzen required W10, I said "what the hell" and got it. It was, fortunately, not so bad. It's spyware but I use SpyBot Anti-Beacon to take care of that.

Windows 11 looks like another $hit-storm that should be avoided until they fix it with multiple Service Packs and avoid it I will!

 

[Slappy McPhee]

I just recently moved to Win 11 and the ONLY reason is solid support for the new 12th/13th gen Intel CPUs otherwise I would just stick with Win 10 still. Nothing compelling otherwise.

 

[Impudicus]

Windows 11 smells like windows 8 or even vista.

 

[inhility]

This is no surprise since, by most accounts, W11 sucks. It's backwards compatibility is so bad that some games simply refuse to run on it. Whenever I have a version of Windows that's stable, I cling to it for dear life until Microsoft manages to fix the problems that they create with the new version.

I held on to XP Pro SP3 until Vista became Windows 7 for obvious reasons. Then I held on to W7 Ultimate x64, refusing to adopt W8 because I saw it on my sister's craptop and not only was it BUTT-UGLY compared to W7, I absolutely HATED the "Metro Screen" aspect of it. Funny as it sounds, I pronounced W8 as "WAIT". I didn't initially want to adopt W10 but since AMD said that Ryzen required W10, I said "what the hell" and got it. It was, fortunately, not so bad. It's spyware but I use SpyBot Anti-Beacon to take care of that.

Windows 11 looks like another $hit-storm that should be avoided until they fix it with multiple Service Packs and avoid it I will!

It's literally Windows 10 on a new coat of paint. Any games that run on W10 will run on W11, super old games probably require some workaround but you're gonna run into the same issue on W10 too.

 

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It's literally Windows 10 on a new coat of paint. Any games that run on W10 will run on W11, super old games probably require some workaround but you're gonna run into the same issue on W10 too.

That's not what two of my co-workers said (but they could be wrong). To be fair, one of them is a tech-noob who buys Alienware. In any case, as long as W10 is working perfectly for me (and it is), I couldn't be bothered. No matter what, Windows versions get better over time so the longer I wait, the better it'll be (assuming that I upgrade at all that is).

 

[MakeMSGreatAgain]

I'm waiting for Windows 12...

 

[QuaZulu]

Yeah, I don't think the adoption rate of Win11 bothers MS in the least. They can play the waiting game. As far as the PC is concerned they essentially have a monopoly running since there is no other OS that is a threat. This attitude was shown in the hardware requirements for Win11. So what if 75% of their customers could not upgrade to 11 for one reason or another. Eventually, they will. As support for older versions is phased out and people eventually buy new machines over time, upgrades will happen. Not for 11? Well, how about 12? 13? Eventually, MS feels they're gonna get you (ahem, "Resistance is futile").

 

[ZedRM]

Yeah really. Also nothing you said argues against the point that 11 is even worse for privacy and security then 10 was.

That's because it's not worthy of response. Windows 11 is no different than Windows 10 in the area of privacy. In the area of security it's a little better for the general user.

Great Argument!

Right back at you.

 

[liljom]

I just doqngraded 2 PCs from Win 11 to 10, and planning to do the same with at least one more.
I like 11 by default, but I dislike 2 things very much:
- forces user to have a Microsoft account
- small hardware change voids activation, and the only way to fix it is a new license
I might test it again in 2 years, but for now, the PCs I build will run Win 10

 

[krzystoff]

LanSweeper's data was based on just 27M devices, which were running an asset management tool -- a tiny subset of the ~2.4 billion Windows PCs in use today; the typical users they are 'researching' are corporate / enterprise users, which update their hardware every 2 or 3 years, and do any software updates on a simlar cycle -- ie. when a company with 10,000 users updates Windows, they will update every desktop and laptop in the same year, after first carefully testing all applications on the newer platform first -- LanSweeper's Windows 11 figures will likely take a great leap in 12 or 24 months, by which time Windows 12 will be looming.
In contrast, StatCounters survey 15% figures using Windows 11 seems more credible given the roughly 330M new computers purchased each year (https://www.statista.com/statistics...recast-for-tablets-laptops-and-desktop-pcs/); 7year attrition almost all PCs in use are replaced globally, and once you add automatic upgrades to existing Windows installs (those which met the TPM requirements), the 15% figure seems close to expectations.

 

[krzystoff]

I just doqngraded 2 PCs from Win 11 to 10, and planning to do the same with at least one more.
I like 11 by default, but I dislike 2 things very much:
- forces user to have a Microsoft account
- small hardware change voids activation, and the only way to fix it is a new license
I might test it again in 2 years, but for now, the PCs I build will run Win 10

It's pretty straight forward to setup without an account:
https://www.windowscentral.com/how-set-windows-11-without-microsoft-account

I've changed graphics cards, RAM and SSDs in 6 Windows 11 PCs, and not had any license issues so far.

 

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I just doqngraded 2 PCs from Win 11 to 10, and planning to do the same with at least one more.

That's not a downgrade!

 

[ZedRM]

That's not a downgrade!

Oh yes it is. Not smart one either.