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Statcounter says Number 10 is still Number 1 in the Windows world

Much of the Windows world has yet to adopt Microsoft's latest desktop operating system more than a year after it launched, according to figures for October collated by Statcounter.have installed Windows 11, meaning it gained 1.83 percentage points in a month. This compares to the 71.29 percent running Windows 10, which fell marginally from 71.88 percent in September.

Windows 7 is still hanging on with a tenuous grip, in third place with 9.61 percent, Windows 8.1 in fourth with 2.45 percent, plain old Windows 8 with 0.69 percent, and bless its heart, Windows XP with 0.39 percent because of your extended family.of the global desktop OS market followed by OS X with 15.7 percent and Linux with 2.6 percent.of total operating system market share, with Windows trailing on 30.11 percent, iOS on 17.6 percent, OS X on 6.24 percent, and Linux on 1.04 percent.

Statcounter is a web analytics service with tracking code installed on 1.5 million websites, recording billions of page views for each site. AdDuplex collates stats from Microsoft Store apps that contain the AdDuplex SDK and it claimed that Windows 11 had 23 percent market share in June.It almost didn't happen...on October 5, 2021.

One reason for the new release was improved security and reliability, Microsoft said, including hardware root of trust via Trusted Platform Module 2.0, Secure Boot, hypervisor-protected code integrity, and hardware-enforced stack protection.

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