{"id":245362,"date":"2025-07-07T13:34:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T13:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/245362\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T13:34:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T13:34:10","slug":"windows-11-has-finally-overtaken-windows-10-as-the-most-used-desktop-os","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/245362\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 11 has finally overtaken Windows 10 as the most used desktop OS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Microsoft has finally crossed an important milestone for Windows 11, months ahead of Windows 10\u2019s end of support cutoff date. Stat Counter,<\/a> spotted by Windows Central<\/a>, now lists Windows 11 as the most used desktop operating system nearly four years after its release, with 52 percent of the market, compared to 44.59 percent for Windows 10.<\/p>\n

Windows 11 became the most popular OS for PC gaming<\/a> in September, but overall adoption had still been lagging behind Windows 10 until now. Leaked data in October 2023 also revealed Windows 11 was used by more than 400 million devices<\/a> at the time, a slower adoption pace than Windows 10 \u2014 which took just a year to reach 400 million devices compared to Windows 11\u2019s two year period.<\/p>\n

Part of the slow adoption is down to Windows 11\u2019s hardware requirements. While Microsoft offered a free upgrade to Windows 10 users, millions of machines have been left behind<\/a> due to stricter CPU and security requirements. Microsoft has been trying to convince the owners of these machines to upgrade their hardware in order to get Windows 11, sometimes with a full-screen prompt<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Windows 10 is due to reach end of support on October 14th, and Microsoft recently revealed it would give away a free year of extra security updates<\/a> to consumers if they were willing to enable Windows Backup and sync their Documents folder to OneDrive. If you don\u2019t want to do this, you\u2019ll have to pay $30 for a year of updates, or redeem 1,000 Microsoft Reward points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Microsoft has finally crossed an important milestone for Windows 11, months ahead of Windows 10\u2019s end of support…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[507,12,326,53,16,15,27119],"class_list":{"0":"post-245362","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-microsoft","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-tech","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-windows"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114812215012069372","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}