People are adopting Windows 11 at twice the rate of 10, OS upgrade offer ahead of schedule
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Since its October 25 launch, Microsoft has worked hard to getWindows 11onto as many PCs as possible. Evidence of this can be found in the company’srigorous marketing pushas well as its upgrade offer system.
We’ve seen evidence of Windows 11’s adoption growth via third-party surveys and figures such asSteam’s monthly hardware and software report, but now we have confirmation directly from Redmond: Windows 11’s upgrade offer is being accepted at twice the rate of Windows 10.
Following its quarterly earnings release (wherein it announced$51.7 billionin revenue for FY22 Q2) and associated call, Microsoft published ablog postdetailing highlights of the current Windows landscape. Among those were the speedy adoption rate of W11 as well as the fact that “Windows 11 also has the highest quality scores and product satisfaction of any version of Windows we’ve ever shipped,” according to Microsoft, though it doesn’t offer in-depth stats on how it arrived at those conclusions.
And that’s not all. The Windows 11 upgrade offer is now officially starting its last phase of availability, which Microsoft notes puts it ahead of schedule since that development was slated for mid-2022.
According to Microsoft, people are spending 40% more time on their Windows 11 PC than what was the case with Windows 10, though again, no substantial details are provided on how they arrived at that figure, and one could speculate that Windows 11 launching amid a pandemic could affect those overall averages.
This all comes hot off the news that between Windows 11 and Windows 10, the two operating systems are onover 1.4 billion devices.
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