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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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[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 46 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

im forced to use it at work and holy shit. 11 is so heavy for no reason, 8gb of ram is not remotely enough anymore, even if you yank out some of the garbage. theres no apparent change in functionality to justify it.

the ssd smart says its almost at its end, and i suspect its because its constantly swapping. paging file is always full, unless i set it to something big like 8+ gb

[-] Zetta@mander.xyz 30 points 1 month ago

I'm pegged at 95% RAM usage all day at work 16 gigs and I'm not doing anything too heavy. Windows is a bloated gross mess

[-] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

Same but I blame work. My surface tablet at home is vanilla windows professional and memory usage is fine with 16gb.

That said I don't use Chrome at home and Chrome is absolutely insane with memory consumption

[-] jj4211@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Yeah, as much as Windows feels... subpar for my day to day vanilla, it really turns crappy with my corporate's mandated load. System is constantly chewing on some bloat from one of the various 'security', monitoring, or fix management solutions that they have on this.

Unfortunately, if a company pitches their extra crap as 'enhancing security', the execs just have to say yes, because to be an exec who ever said 'no' to more security is to put your job at peril. Even if three of that vendor's competitors already got their equivalent solutions into the load already...

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 month ago

And fucking Teams.

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