Despite Windows 11 grabbing attention with its captivating new features and making headlines, Windows 10 still maintains its dominance in the overall market share.
Statcounter has once again analyzed its figures to see what market shares the respective Windows variants claim. The evaluation is based on more than 5 billion page views per month from the Statcounter network of more than 1.5 million websites worldwide.
The figures presented for September 2023 no doubt spoil the day for someone at Microsoft headquarters. Windows 10 remains substantially ahead of its successor, while Windows 11 is only very slowly gaining market share. Considering that modern computers are usually delivered with Windows 11 and that in most business deployments, all PCs are sometimes switched to Windows 11 in one go, the still large lead of Windows 10 is astonishing.
Comparing Windows 11, 10, and 7.
According to Statcounter, Windows 10 was running on 71.62 percent of all Windows computers in its network on September 2023. This figure hardly moved since October 2022, though there have been fluctuations; Windows 10 had a 73.46 percent share in March 2023 and 67.95 percent in December 2022. But in 2023 Windows 10 never slipped below the 71 percent mark.
Windows 11 has been making gains since September 2022, but the gains have been very slow. It was not until March 2023 that Windows 11 broke the 20 per cent barrier and has since stagnated at around or just over 23 per cent.
Microsoft has not provided any updates for Windows 7 for a long time, so it’s a massive security risk. While 10.63 percent of surveyed users were still using Windows 7 in September 2022, the number of users declined significantly in January 2023 when companies could no longer pay for extended support plans.
