Windows 11's market share is dropping again with users downgrading to Windows 10

According to the latest StatCounter data, Windows 11 shows a second significant drop within the latest two months of 2024. Windows 11 adoption went down from 35.58% in October to 34.12% in December accounting to a 1.46% market share cut.

It might seem a small change, but with billions of devices running Windows out there (we don’t have an exact number here), this is a big fluctuation. Apparently, the users are shifting back to Windows 10 who’s adoption rose from 60.95% in October to 62.7% in December 2024.

This downfall may appear surprising since the latest Steam report shows that Windows 11 gained a new high adoption rate amongst gamers. But then again, gamers are only a fraction of the global OS market share.

Why is the Windows 11 market share dropping?

It’s really hard to pinpoint a single factor influencing this shift, because Microsoft made a lot of changes in the latest part of the last year that might have been discouraging for users. We remind you that the software giant issued a warning for users who install Windows 11 on unsupported devices. Then, of course, there are the latest issues concerning the Windows 11 24H2 version.

Apart from a slew of bugs, millions of PCs have been blocked from installing it due to the Auto HDR feature being bugged and due to driver problems that left users with unrecognized scanners and other devices.

It might also be about Microsoft announcing that TPM 2.0 will soon be a must have feature and not just a recommendation. That leads to the actual push from Microsoft to buy a new PC if you want to run Windows 11 as intended.

Of course, we cannot leave out some features introduced with Windows 11 that don’t seem to be welcomed by Windows 10 users, such as Windows Recall. The tool that can snapshot every action on your PC is still a concern form many, although Microsoft allows you to opt out of or disable.

Leaving all these problems aside (which is pretty hard to do), Windows 10 will reach end of support in October 2025. Although you can prolong the support period, there will be quite a huge number of vulnerable PCs out there if the situation doesn’t improve for Windows 11. Will we see a migration surge to Windows 11 in the next months, or will the users opt for another OS? It’s hard to make a clear prediction and there are plenty of other scenarios to follow, but we will approach them in due time to keep you into the loop.

Have you upgraded to Windows 11? If not, what are your reasons? Let’s talk about this in the comments below.