Home windows 11’s development was a fluke as market share falls once more in December
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In abstract:
- PCWorld reviews that Home windows 11’s market share dropped to 50.73% in December 2025, falling over 3 proportion factors after earlier development appeared non permanent.
- Home windows 10 defied expectations by growing to 44.68% market share regardless of Microsoft ending official help for the older working system.
- Microsoft confronted important challenges in 2025 with struggling AI initiatives and Home windows replace points, making it a tough yr for adoption.
Microsoft is coming into 2026 with discouraging numbers for Home windows 11, as the most recent figures from Statcounter reveal that market share for Microsoft’s working system fell additional in December regardless of the ending of help for Home windows 10 in a lot of the world.
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The share of Home windows 11 customers fell by simply over 3 proportion factors, from 53.7 p.c all the way down to 50.73. On the identical time, the share of Home windows 10 customers elevated from 42.7 p.c to 44.68 p.c, whereas the share of Home windows 8 customers truly rose from 2.93 p.c to three.83. (Huh.)
Total, 2025 appears to have been a little bit of a nightmare yr for Microsoft, with—amongst different issues—floundering AI initiatives that didn’t actually catch on, plus a sequence of insufficient Home windows updates.
This text initially appeared on our sister publication PC för Alla and was translated and localized from Swedish.
