According to a company report, users of older operating systems like Microsoft’s Windows 7 are reluctant to upgrade to the current Windows 11 operating system and prefer to upgrade to Windows 10. Statistics counter for February.
It turned out that in February 2023 there was a surge in the popularity of Windows 10, and this was more significant than the increase in Windows 11 installations. A month ago, in January, Microsoft disabled Windows 7 and 8.1 from Extended Security. Updates
“This has led more companies to upgrade their computers to Windows 10 and increase market share from 68.86% in January to 73.25% in February,” the report says.
Windows 11 also increased its market share by only 1.01% in February, reaching an all-time high of 19.13%, according to Statcounter. Therefore, almost every five computers have the latest Microsoft operating system installed.
At the same time, Windows 7 remains the third most popular version of Windows. However, older operating systems have lost a large portion of users. The share fell from 9.55% to 5.39% for Windows 7 and from 2.28% to 1.15% for Windows 8.1.
Previous computer users started to complain To the intrusive full-screen banners suggesting that they upgrade to Windows 11, even though their computers are physically incapable of running Microsoft’s new operating system.