Because a ton of people got new devices for Christmas with Win 11 pre-loaded. Prior to that, Win 11 adoption rates were declining. It’s highly likely that future results will show Win 11 adoption continues to slide.
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Decq@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Why write this article in January when it’s main source shows an increase of 12% again in that month?? If anything this article should be about how statscounter is a very unreliable metric. Honest journalism really is dead huh.
darkdemize@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
Decq@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
I highly doubt 12% of the pc market got a new laptop for Christmas. But maybe a lot of corporations got new pc’s for the 2026 budget to phase out windows 10? I still I find a 12% jump huge, especially in the current RAM shortage climate.
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Doesn’t seem that crazy. I usually got about 4-8 years out of my laptops. So a little over 10% turn over makes sense to me statistically.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 9 hours ago
That’s also about what I saw at an MSP I briefly worked at, about 2000 managed PCs, and about 200 new managed PCs per year being prepared and deployed
chunes@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
That’s how adoption happens. People overwhelmingly don’t change the OS that comes with the device.
Imhotep@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
That’s why I liked the “misleading?” tag on Reddit, it’s a good anti clickbait tool.