- Windows 11 has gained 2.5% market share in January 2025
- It’s a significant uptick that would normally take two months
- Expect the pace of upgrades will rise when the deadline for October 2025 for the end of life for Windows 10 will be closer
Windows 11 got a large number of converts over the past month, according to a fresh batch of statistics from an analytical company.
Statcounter registered a big win for Windows 11 with its market share in January 2025 (of all Windows versions worldwide), namely a 2.53% uptick. Windows 11 is now at a share of 36.65% compared to the previous month as it was 34.12%.
We’ve seen the recent winnings come to 2%, but an increase of 2.5% is a fresh high here (an uptick that would typically happen in two months, as witnessed last year).
Windows 10 fell from 62.7% to 60.33%, so don’t be under any illusions that the older operating system has been deterred yet – it’s still the reigning monarch with a lot of margin (away from PC players who has adopted Windows 11 much more quickly).
However, the margin between Windows 11 and Windows 10 is steadily falling, and now has a lead of only 23.7% for the latter.
Windows 7 fell by 0.17%, but most of the people who wandered to Windows 11 came from Windows 10 as the number rose and fell for both operating systems that clearly illustrate.
It is not surprising that more people change to Windows 11, but given that the deadline for the Windows 10 end of life when updates are no longer delivered to us is October 2025 – which is only eight months away now.
Analysis: an inevitable migration
Given how time is flying apparently faster and faster these days (don’t tell me that I am the only one who has noticed), six months will be gone before you know and that Windows 10 supports deadline will be right in The horizon as a large, red, flashing warning sign. (One who declares, “Upgrade now, or put your PC at risk due to new vulnerabilities in Windows 10 that are not patched by security updates”).
Outside of a lack of another operating system, there is another choice rather than upgrading to Windows 11, and it pays for an extra year of support for Windows 10 – this is the first time consumers have been offered this option, actually. In some ways it is just to dismiss the inevitable.
What we start to see here, I think, are the first signs of rush just to get the upgrade done – something I’ve advised is the best course of action at this time. After all, why hang around, especially if you need to sort something to make your PC eligible for the upgrade, which may be as simple as turning an option in BIOS to activate TPM 2.0.
Windows latest, discovering the release of the new statistics for Windows versions, notes that companies – apparently need much more planning for an upgrade across a fleet of computers – already make the move to Windows 11. And that The activity will represent some great increases to the newer OS. An IT administrator that has over 1,500 PCs in their care, Tech said the site: “We’ve been testing Windows 11 for months now and we think that’s the one [right] Time to move away from Windows 10. ”
In theory, there should be even greater tips in the market share against Windows 11 as 2025 progresses. In fact, I would be worried if this was not the case. Given how slow Windows 11 adoption has generally been across its existence, we are likely to witness approx. 5% shift, month to month, move to Microsoft’s latest OS or even bigger.
