Windows 10 adoption reached 38% in one year. So far, Windows 11 installations have not been increasing at that pace; however, that is likely to change.

IT asset management group Lansweeper has observed that the adoption of Windows 11 now stands at 8.35% as of October 2023, a slight jump from the 5.74% seen in September 2022.

Microsoft Copilot reckons that it didn't have to be like this There has been a clear uptick in the adoption of Windows 11 as enterprises migrate PC fleets ahead of the end of support date for ...

Statcounter’s figures for July 2024 show that in the ranking of all Windows versions, Windows 11 is now at 30.83% (in second place), which is up just over a percentage point from the previous month.

Adoption for Windows 11, which Microsoft released in October 2021, reached an “overall usage” of 19.4% last month, an increase of more than 10% since the beginning of December 2021.

Even more telling is in the period from November 2021 to January 2022, the same company reported Windows 11's adoption had doubled to 16.1 percent.

By the same mark in 2017, Windows 10 was on over 500 million devices, according to Microsoft’s annual report for that year. Windows 11 is definitely seeing a slower uptick.

A significant uptick in the first few months of 2025 means that Windows 11 adoption now stands at 42.7% (as of March 2025), with Windows 10 installs dropping to 54.2% (via Statcounter) If recent ...

Data on the adoption of Microsoft's newest OS shows uptake ranging from 1% to 9%. But most enterprises will likely wait until at least 2023 before broadly rolling out Windows 11.

Windows 7 adoption numbers still don't make for a perfect comparison to Windows 11. Windows 7 brought major technical improvements to XP (though most had already been present in the less-popular ...

Windows 11 was released in early October 2021 and saw an impressive adoption rate. Six months later and the initial excitement for Microsoft’s latest operating system seems to have tapered off.

For example, in January Microsoft reported that the adoption rate for Windows 11 was twice the rate of Windows 10. However, new figures suggest Windows 11's adoption rate is slowing to a crawl.