Windows 11 claimed a 23.1% market share in AdDuplex’s latest survey for June 2022. There was no new data last month, but Windows 11 had a 19.7% market share in AdDuplex’s April 2022 report, so we’re looking at a quite unimpressive 3,4% points progression in two months.
With a 38.2% market share (up from 35% in May), Windows 10 version 21H2 remains the most popular version of Windows in this latest survey based on data collected from around 5,000 Microsoft Store apps. Windows 10 version 21H1 remains in the second position at 23.9%, down from 26.4% in May.
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Clearly, Windows 11 is growing very slowly, and considering that AdDuplex’s data represents just a small fraction of the over 1.4 billion devices running Windows, actual usage could be much lower. It’s going to take years for Windows 11 to become the most popular version of Windows, and it doesn’t help that minimum requirements for the OS left many Windows 10 users on the sidelines. As Windows 10 will be supported until 2025, business users also have no reason to hurry.
Microsoft officially announced Windows 11 a year ago, and the OS is set to receive its first big update later this fall. Windows 11 version 22H22 is already being tested with Windows Insiders in the Beta and Release Preview channels, and it will bring various improvements to the Start Menu, Taskbar, Task Manager, and File Explorer.