AdDuplex: Windows 11’s Market Share Continues to Stagnate in April

AdDuplex has confirmed today that the growth of Windows 11 has slowed down significantly. Indeed, the market share of Windows 11 went from 19.4% in March to 19.7% in the company’s April 2022 report, which is based on data collected from around 5,000 Windows Store apps.

In comparison, Windows 10 version 21H2 saw its market share grow from 28.5% in March to 35% this month. Microsoft announced last week that the latest version of Windows 10 was now ready for broad deployment, which means that all Windows 10 users can now install it from Windows Update.

Windows 10 version 21H1 closes the podium at 26.4%, down from 26.5% last month. The older Windows 10 version 20H2, which will reach end of support for Home and Pro users on May 10, 2022, now has a single-digit market share of 6.1% (down from 10.8% last month).

Earlier this year, Microsoft said that it was seeing “strong demand” for Windows 11 and with “people accepting the upgrade offer to Windows 11 at twice the rate we saw for Windows 10.” While the 19.7% market share reported by AdDuplex isn’t bad, it’s possible that the majority of Windows 10 users who could update to Windows 11 already did, and that the OS’ strict minimum hardware requirements are now preventing the rest of them to follow.