Lansweeper stats make grim reading for Microsoft
Microsoft’s Windows 11 adventure is going swimmingly. IT asset management outfit Lansweeper has published the results of a 10 million PC survey that gives the new operating system a 0.21 per cent market share. That is a good deal less than the 3.62 per cent of Windows XP and a nose ahead of the reviled Windows Vista. It is also not great news as the OS enters its second month of general availability. App advertising biz AdDuplex put the figure nearer 5 per cent, although its survey was far smaller at 60,000 Windows 10 and 11 PCs. AdDuplex’s data is also based on the approximately 5,000 Windows Store apps running its SDK. Lansweeper’s research comes from 10 million Windows devices, of which the IT asset management platform reckoned less than 45 per cent could take the update to Windows 11, thanks to Microsoft’s updated hardware requirements. It is also worth bearing in mind that the Windows 11 rollout will take place over a number of months as Microsoft keeps an eye on what breaks and what doesn’t. Users with compatible PCs running Windows Update could well receive a message promising the update is on the way at some point in the future.
