Little by little, Windows 11 is getting the numbers and increasing the number of people who use the current version of the operating system. Unfortunately for Microsoft, Windows 10 continues to be the most popular and largest number of total facilities.
Time is running out. The alarms still do not sound at the Microsoft offices, but everyone remembers that the official Windows 10 support will end this year 2025. There will be prior payment extension and different unofficial options, but there is no doubt that everything will become In an important headache for thousands of people. Therefore, it is good news to see that the Windows 11 market share is increasing.
An important improvement
The reality is that the month of January 2025 has been very positive for Windows 11, since it has achieved a fee of 36.6% of the Windows market. It represents an increase of 2.5% compared to the figures signed in December of last year 2024. This improvement places the quota that Windows 11 has in a positive, especially if, in the month of February, it is possible to maintain the percentage or to the Less to get close. You have to think that January is a month of starting from scratch because it is the beginning of the year, so it is possible that this market share increase is due to this.
You look at the situation with optimism so that, in the coming months, the Windows 11 market share continues to increase and thus Microsoft manages to place its current operating system in a green area of the table. Because, if that does not happen, although the company could have everything planned, there is no doubt that it will be a complicated situation. After all, as we said before, there are thousands of Windows 10 computers in all types of institutions that could begin to expose security problems if there is no plan B in between.
Windows 10 is still a leader
Using the data that Statcounter has published, we can know that, although that 36.6% of Windows 11 sounds good, the reality is that Windows 10 is still a leader. And it does with 60.37% of the market share in January 2025, something that continues to be mass Since the current operating system was made available to users and the situation improves very slowly. Previously, Windows 10 had reached a market share of 69.89%, something that happened in April of 2024.
Given this, Microsoft continues to try to give reasons to users to jump to Windows 11 updating or buying a new computer with which they can use the operating system. But all their plans, which have not been precisely few, are staying halfway. A few months after seeing how Windows 10 says its last words, the market is still determined to continue using the platform. Many of these users will lengthen the technical support once the date arrives, but it will also be very possible for a large number of equipment to be unprotected. Of course, there will be those who prefer to continue with Windows 10 and who will do everything they can to continue in their classic operating system.
Possibly, we will still take a long time to see Windows 10 disappear from the most used Windows versions list. Do not forget that Windows 7 finished its support in 2020 and that, today, it has a market share of 2.24%, which is more than curious. And even Windows 8 or Windows XP still have a small percentage. A version to which it is difficult to see on the list is Windows Vista, whose launch was very eclipsed by the popularity that Windows XP had at the time. The story, in this case with Windows 10 and Windows 11, seems to be repeated.
