A new Lansweeper survey of over 10 million Windows devices shows that 1.44 percent of them are running Windows 11, fewer than the number running Windows XP or 8. (Note that this data includes all versions of Windows Server as well.)
“Although the rate of adoption is increasing bit by bit, it’s obvious that Windows 11 upgrades aren’t going as fast as Microsoft had hoped, especially within the business environment,” Lansweeper Chief Strategy Officer Roel Decneut said. “Many organizations have been put off from having to buy new machines that meet these conditions, while others are simply happy with the current existence of Windows 10 which continues to be supported until 2025.”
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According to the Lansweeper survey, 1.44 percent of PCs are running Windows 11, up from 0.52 percent in January 2022. But Windows 11 usage trails that of Windows XP (1.71 percent), Windows 7 (4.7 percent), and Windows 8 (1.99 percent). Windows 10 is by far the most popular version of Windows, with 80.34 percent usage. And all versions of Windows Server are responsible for 9.15 percent of Windows devices collectively.
Lansweeper believes that Windows 11’s slow adoption is tied to its arbitrary hardware requirements: while 91 percent of the surveyed devices have enough RAM to run Windows 11, only about half (or 52.55 percent) meet the TPM requirements, and only 44.4 percent meet the CPU requirements.
“This situation will likely continue in the future unless businesses are given a compelling reason to upgrade,” Decneut added. “For those looking to adopt Windows 11, the first step is to assess which of their existing devices are capable of upgrading. It’s the reason why IT asset management is so important for organizations, capable of running in-depth device audits that can tell IT teams the hardware specs of machines so they can weigh up how many devices are capable of upgrading and the potential cost of such a move.”
Lansweeper offers tools that can help with this, of course. And you can learn more at the Lansweeper website.
dftf
<p>Plus… with <em>Windows 10</em> supported until at-least October 2025 (depending which edition you’re running) then why not just skip <em>11</em> and wait for the inevitable <em>Windows 12</em>? </p>
dftf
<p>1.44%?</p><p><br></p><p>That’s <em>quite</em> a contrast from the recent-article titled <em>"Windows 11 Usage Stagnates in Latest AdDuplex Report"</em>, dated 30 March, which put the share at 19.4% to say-the-least!</p><p><br></p><p>(Also: <em>ouch</em> for <em>Windows Vista</em>: nearly <em>four-times</em> more PCs are still using <em>Windows 2000</em> than it!)</p>
dftf
<p>Weird… according to <em>The Register</em> they say the <em>LANSweeper </em>study data is derived "from a scan of 10 million PCs, 20 percent enterprise and 80 percent consumer", suggesting it is not all from enterprise-only.</p><p><br></p><p>They also clarify that for the <em>AdDuplex</em> survey, the only PCs that would get included are those which have installed an app via the <em>Microsoft Store</em> that includes ads that are served from their servers. So anyone who has installed apps on <em>Windows 10 </em>or <em>11</em> devices, but for which not-one of those apps contains ads that come from servers ran by <em>AdDuplex</em> would get counted.</p><p><br></p><p>Shame that this site doesn’t contain this sort of useful information in the article!</p>
dftf
<p>It like for those people who claim to live in the <em>Control Panel</em> — I’m puzzled <em>what</em> they are doing in there on such a regular-basis. Once I’ve setup a <em>Windows</em> profile initially with all the settings I like, I rarely have any need to ever go into <em>Control Panel</em>. You can uninstall apps from within the new <em>Settings </em>interface, and with what’s left I struggle to see what-else would be needed so-often? <em>Sync Centre</em>, perhaps, in a corporate environment, to manage times when two people have edited the same remote-file offline, but beyond that…?</p>
dftf
<p><em>Windows 7</em> PCs may still be supported, if enrolled into the ESU programme.</p><p><br></p><p><em>Windows XP </em>is a concern though, yes, if not isolated.</p>
dftf
<p>It would be incorrect though: 20% of PCs were enterprise; 80% consumer, at-least according to The Register’s article on this (<strong>theregister.com/2022/04/19/windows_11_marketshare</strong>)</p>
dftf
<p>Have you tried disabling the "cached mode" (where an offline OST file can be used) as in many-cases doing so, and so requiring <em>Outlook</em> to run "live-only", often fixes weird issues like that. (Or when <em>Outlook </em>is closed, delete the OST file and let it rebuild it.)</p>
dftf
<p>That’s assuming Microsoft chooses to <em>offer</em> any extended-support: the ESU programme, at-least on the consumer-side, was born with <em>Windows 7</em>, wasn’t it? <em>Windows 8 </em>is still set to die come January, with no talks of any extensions.</p><p><br></p><p>If enough people are still using <em>Windows 10</em> come October 2025, they might decide to continue the updates for-free though, past that date. Wouldn’t be the first-time: <em>XP</em> ended support in April 2014, even-though it should have ended in October 2011. And <em>Windows 98 Second Edition </em>and <em>Windows Me</em> were both supposed to end-support on 31 December 2004, but finally did so on 11 July 2006.</p>
dftf
<p>I’m not sure it really means as-much as you think it does.</p><p><br></p><p>Clearly there will be many PCs from the early 2000s which are not powerful-enough to run anything past <em>Windows XP</em>, which will explain that stat. Remember at one point, <em>XP </em>use surpassed <em>Windows 7</em> until it overtook; and likewise <em>Windows 7</em> was more-used than <em>Windows 10, </em>until that eventually overtook<em>.</em></p><p><br></p><p>By your logic we could say that all modern games-consoles have also failed, as none have surpassed the sales of the <em>PS1 </em>or <em>PS2</em>… though I would bet you that all modern-consoles see more use thesedays than those older ones!</p>