Windows 11 tops market share as 10 faces extended farewell

Windows 11 has leapt ahead of Windows 10 in market share, according to the latest Statcounter figures.

The numbers, which show Windows 11 at 72.57 percent and Windows 10 at 26.45 percent, appear to support a Microsoft statement from earlier this year that its flagship operating system had surpassed one billion users.

Statcounter's figures must be taken with a pinch of salt since they are derived from tracking code installed on more than 1.5 million sites globally. The company also revises the figures as more data comes in, but in the absence of official telemetry from Microsoft, it remains one of the few independent indicators of OS market share.

The trend is not surprising given that Microsoft cut support for many versions of Windows 10 in October 2025. Users can keep the fixes flowing through the Extended Security Updates program, although the extra support comes at ...