That allows organisations to take their time planning for, and testing, the new platform. As a result, the company is advancing the pace of the rollout faster than it had anticipated, “and now making the Windows 11 upgrade more broadly available to eligible Windows 10 devices,” John Cable, vice president of program management for Windows Servicing and Delivery, wrote in his blog in November 16.Įven so, Lansweeper’s data points to a drip, not a flood, of uptake, with several reasons cited for the less-than-robust uptake of Windows 11 in enterprises.įor one, Microsoft has said it will continue to support Windows 10 through 2025, offering a much longer runway for corporate upgrades to Windows 11. If Lansweeper’s data is accurate, more PCs are running Windows XP (3.62 per cent) and Windows 8 (0.95 per cent) than are running Windows 11.įor its part, Microsoft said in a blog post that Windows 11 adoption has yielded mostly positive user feedback. This is the first time in “modern history” when an 'older' version of the OS (Windows 10 21H2) entered the market later than a newer one (Windows 11 21H2), AdDuplex noted on its website. One is from the Windows 10 branch, the other is Windows 11. There are two Windows versions named 21H2 on the market now. The latest release of Windows 10 (21H2), which was rolled out on November 16, has reached 3.7 per cent adoption, according to AdDuplex. “It’s important to take all numbers with a grain of salt,” Kleynhans said.Īnecdotally, he said, Windows 11 is faring better in its early release days than Windows 10 did six years ago. Sample sizes are typically smaller and small percentages are sensitive to any changes. AdDuplex bases its data on about 60,000 Windows 10 or 11 PCs running its monitoring software.ĭiscrepancies among data for OS adoption is not unusual, according to Steve Kleynhans, a vice president of research at Gartner. Lansweeper gleans its Windows adoption data from more than 10 million devices running on business and home networks. The primary reasons Windows 11 isn’t seeing higher adoption rates “are likely due to the harsh requirements in place to upgrade to Windows 11 and a lack of urgency since Windows 10 is still supported until 2025,” Esben Dochy, technical product evangelist for Lansweeper, wrote in an email reply to Computerworld.Īn upgrade to Windows 11 will require a system with 64-bit processors, 4GB of memory, 64GB of storage, UEFI secure boot and the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) v2.0. Two weeks ago, IT asset management company Lansweeper pegged Windows 11 adoption at only 0.21 per cent of PC users involved in its own software-based survey.

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