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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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[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Even Mint you have to jump through hoops to not have to put in your password every time there's updates.

That's... by design. Nothing can change your computer until you decide to approve it. As you said, you can change that setting but it's not an oversight. Many of Windows' historic security vulnerabilities were because they gave every user admin rights and didn't prompt for changes. It's also how many users were unknowingly upgraded to Windows 11 without wanting it...

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago

Absolutely, and it's very good design.

But people can fuck right off with this "Linux can be used by everybody" shit, because apparently remembering to type in a password is too god damned confusing for most.