Windows 11 Home
Here it is the brand new version of Windows, it is Windows 11 the evolution of Microsoft’s PC operating system. Faster, better display for multiple screens, a new taskbar, new icons, etc.
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Downloads:
345 -
Release date :
04/10/2021 -
Auteur :
Microsoft -
Licence :
commercial license -
Categories:
Operating system
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Operating system :
Windows
If Microsoft had been quick to congratulate itself on the very rapid adoption of Windows 10, communicating regularly on the number of installations and the fervor with which Windows 7 and 8 users had migrated to this new version, it is not nothing for Windows 11. To get an idea of the interest of users for the latest version of the operating system, it is therefore necessary to rely on a few third-party figures, such as the statistics of use of Steam, the platform of Valve popular with PC gamers.
That’s exactly what they did our colleagues fromArs Technica. Although the method has its limitations, it does provide insight into current trends. And the least we can say is that gamers were much more inclined to “jump” on Windows 10 in 2015 than they are for Windows 11.
Over the past six months, the rate of adoption of Windows 11 by Steam users has constantly increased, but in fairly low proportions, which means that at the end of March 2022, they were around 17% to have taken the plunge. In the same period since Windows 10 was released, the momentum was much stronger and 31% of Steam users had Windows 10 installed. In other words, Windows 11 adoption is almost twice as slow than Windows 10 had been.
How to explain it? There are actually several obvious reasons. The first is that Windows 11 is a security-oriented version of the OS and that it can only be installed on machines compatible with its security prerequisites, which immediately eliminates some PCs. The second is that the release of Windows 10 led to a flurry of purchases and renewals of computers, sometimes coming with Windows 7 or 8 and updating to Windows 10 upon activation, which may have inflated the statistics. . Again, this is not really the case with Windows 11, especially given the lackluster state of the gaming PC market weighed down by the shortage of graphics cards and their very high price. Finally, it should be noted that the adoption of Windows 10 had been quite exceptional. That of Windows 11 would tend to return, in reality, to more traditional standards. Logic, somewhere, for a version that does not want to be “breaking”.