Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

CTOnews.com According to Microsoft's internal data obtained by Windows Central, Windows 11 currently has more than 400 million active devices per month and is expected to reach 500 million devices by early 2024.

That means it took Microsoft about two years to get Win11 to 400 million active devices, a much slower pace than Win 10. The data shows that Win10, released in 2015, reached the same level in just over a year and reached the 1 billion milestone in early 2020.

Of course, CTOnews.com believes that Windows 10 this speed to a large extent to benefit from the free upgrade policy at that time, and Windows 11 also has hardware requirements, so the popularity of slower is also normal.

When it was released, Microsoft announced that all Windows 8.1 and most Windows 7 computers would be free to update, but the advertised free upgrade window was only one year, so this somewhat forced users to upgrade as soon as possible so as not to miss the free upgrade period.

In contrast, Windows 11 has processor and TPM 2.0 requirements, so almost only PCs manufactured in 2018 and later officially support Win11, which can be said to eliminate a large number of PCs, especially those who upgrade to Win 10 during the free upgrade period.

According to Microsoft's internal metrics, Windows 11 is still performing strongly, although users may have different opinions.

Now, almost everyone's eyes are focused on the new version of Windows (probably named Windows 12) expected to be released in 2024, when Microsoft is expected to bring revolutionary new AI features and cloud support.

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