Windows 11 Adoption May Have Stalled
It’s been six months since Windows 11 began rolling out, but uptake for the OS seems to have stalled last month, according to stats from an app advertising platform.
AdDuplex has been tracking Windows 11 usage by collecting anonymized user data from 5,000 Windows Store apps. March stats show a major slowdown in adoption. Only 19.4% of the surveyed users had Windows 11 installed, a mere 0.1% increase from the month before.
That’s a huge slowdown from January when AdDuplex reported Windows 11 adoption had doubled to 16.1% percent based on a survey of around 60,000 PCs.
PC benchmarking provider PassMark also keeps stats on OS adoption, and found Windows 11 usage only increased by 1.6% last month. However, PassMark estimates Windows 11's share is significantly higher at 31.5%.
The stats raise questions over whether Windows 11's strict hardware requirements are preventing users from adopting the OS. Microsoft is officially only rolling out Windows 11 to PCs that are at most four to five years old, and come built with a security feature called Trusted Platform Module (TPM), though you can install Windows 11 manually on many unsupported systems.
The slow uptake also occurs after Microsoft signaled in January that all remaining Windows PCs should be receiving the option to install Windows 11 soon. “We’re excited to share that the upgrade offer to Windows 11 is beginning to enter its final phase of availability, putting us ahead of our initial plan of mid-2022,” Chief Product Officer Panos Panay said at the time.
Still, I myself own a new Windows 10 desktop PC, and have yet to receive the free upgrade option. So there may be a large number of users in Microsoft's queue.
For now, all Microsoft will says is that it’s still using
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