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Windows 11 market share falls despite Microsoft ad blitz | Windows 10, on the other hand, managed to grow its share of that market (www.theregister.com)

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Despite Microsoft's push to get customers onto Windows 11, growth in the market share of the software giant's latest operating system has stalled, while Windows 10 has made modest gains, according to fresh figures from Statcounter.

This is not the news Microsoft wanted to hear. After half a year of growth, the line for Windows 11 global desktop market share has taken a slight downturn, according to the website usage monitor, going from 35.6 percent in October to 34.9 percent in November. Windows 10, on the other hand, managed to grow its share of that market by just under a percentage point to 61.8 percent.

The dip in usage comes just as Microsoft has been forcing full-screen ads onto the machines of customers running Windows 10 to encourage them to upgrade. The stats also revealed a small drop in the market share of its Edge browser, despite relentlessly plugging the application in the operating system.

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[-] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 372 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

People found out about the Win10 IoT LTSC version, which Microsoft alleges to be supporting for 10 more years.

It comes with basically zero of the M$ bloat that everyone hates, as well. It's just Windows.

I just installed it on my father's new (old) laptop, because he is not ready for Linux yet -- possibly ever.

It has no:

Cortana
Copilot
Windows Media Player
OneDrive
Office 365 Nag
Candy crush, Solitaire collection, etc.
Ads and nags on the lock screen
"Finish setting up your device and create a Microsoft Account!!!" nag every X number of bootups
Xbox Game Bar
Microsoft Store
Etc.

It does come with Edge.

Because it does not have the Microsoft Store you have to manually install anything that comes as a store app from the command line. I was taken by surprise that the Duckduckgo browser is packaged this way. But you can still do it. Normal programs install just fine.

Yes, you can use it for gaming.

Edit: I guess I forgot to drop the obligatory link to https://massgrave.dev/ , which is how I found out about this and got it running. Also hosted there is a tool that allows you to... license... various Microsoft products including your shiny new Win10 IoT install.

[-] bob_omb_battlefield@sh.itjust.works 36 points 3 weeks ago

No Candy Crush? Non-starter.

[-] god@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah what do you do on a computer without Candy Crush. Could it even connect to the Internet?

[-] swab148@lemm.ee 11 points 3 weeks ago

I thought Candy Crush was a dependency for File Explorer, TIL

[-] ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Unable to verify Minecraft account. Please check your Internet connection or your billing status.

Retry

Use PowerShell Lite instead

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