{"id":712,"date":"2025-07-07T14:39:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T10:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/windows-11-has-finally-overtaken-windows-10-as-the-most-used-desktop-os\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T14:39:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T10:39:00","slug":"windows-11-has-finally-overtaken-windows-10-as-the-most-used-desktop-os","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/windows-11-has-finally-overtaken-windows-10-as-the-most-used-desktop-os\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 11 has finally overtaken Windows 10 as the most used desktop OS"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/02\/STK109_WINDOWS_C.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Microsoft has finally crossed an important milestone for Windows 11, months ahead of Windows 10\u2019s end of support cutoff date. <a href=\"https:\/\/gs.statcounter.com\/windows-version-market-share\/desktop\/worldwide\/#monthly-202106-202507\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stat Counter,<\/a> spotted by <a href=\"https:\/\/gs.statcounter.com\/windows-version-market-share\/desktop\/worldwide\/#monthly-202106-202507\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.windowscentral.com\/microsoft\/windows-11\/windows-11-is-now-the-most-popular-desktop-os-in-the-world-finally-surpasses-windows-10-after-4-years\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Windows Central<\/em><\/a>, now lists Windows 11 as the most used desktop operating system nearly four years after its release, with 52 percent of the market, compared to 44.59 percent for Windows 10.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Windows 11 became the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/9\/2\/24234091\/microsoft-windows-11-popular-steam-pc-gaming-survey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">most popular OS for PC gaming<\/a> in September, but overall adoption had still been lagging behind Windows 10 until now. Leaked data in October 2023 also revealed Windows 11 was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/10\/18\/23922062\/microsoft-windows-11-400-million-active-devices-usage-data-leak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">used by more than 400 million devices<\/a>\u00a0at the time, a slower adoption pace than Windows 10 \u2014 which took just a year to reach 400 million devices compared to Windows 11\u2019s two year period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Part of the slow adoption is down to Windows 11\u2019s hardware requirements. While Microsoft offered a free upgrade to Windows 10 users, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/6\/29\/22555371\/microsoft-windows-11-cpu-support-hardware-requirements-tpm-response\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">millions of machines have been left behind<\/a> due to stricter CPU and security requirements. Microsoft has been trying to convince the owners of these machines to upgrade their hardware in order to get Windows 11, sometimes with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/4\/11\/24127497\/microsoft-windows-10-upgrade-prompt-windows-11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">full-screen prompt<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Windows 10 is due to reach end of support on October 14th, and Microsoft recently revealed it would give away a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/691811\/microsoft-windows-10-free-extended-security-updates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">free year of extra security updates<\/a> to consumers if they were willing to enable Windows Backup and sync their Documents folder to OneDrive. If you don\u2019t want to do this, you\u2019ll have to pay $30 for a year of updates, or redeem 1,000 Microsoft Reward points.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has finally crossed an important milestone for Windows 11, months ahead of Windows 10\u2019s end of support cutoff date. 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