Mainstream Home windows 10 assist is ending in six months, and though Microsoft is letting customers have another 12 months of safety updates for $30 (third-party options promise for much longer assist), the working system’s market share is declining reasonably shortly.

In response to the newest knowledge printed by Statcounter, Home windows 11 made a big leap in March 2025. Home windows 10, alternatively, misplaced an enormous chunk of customers in only one month. As of proper now, Home windows 10 holds 54.23% of all Home windows PCs worldwide, which is a 4.43-point decline. Home windows 11 has 42.66%, which is a brand new all-time excessive for the working system and a rise of 4.53 factors (the largest leap in three years).

For Home windows 11, the year-over-year change is +15.98 factors (in March 2024, it was at 26.68%), and for Home windows 10, it’s -14.84 factors (69.07% in March 2024).

It’s fairly attention-grabbing to see Home windows 11 catching up with its predecessor so shortly, however Microsoft nonetheless has loads of work to do to transform the remaining Home windows 10 customers. A few of them will migrate to Home windows 11 naturally, whereas others must follow the outgoing OS for a while for all types of causes. Some can not formally replace because of outdated (by Microsoft’s requirements) {hardware}, whereas others stay skeptical about Home windows 11’s adjustments and controversial design selections.

With Home windows 10, Microsoft is providing the Prolonged Safety Replace program to common clients for the primary time (beforehand unique to business customers), which is one more reason why Home windows 10 is anticipated to hold round for a bit longer. As of proper now, Microsoft plans to supply prolonged safety updates to common shoppers for just one 12 months.

Whereas all of the drama is going on between Home windows 10 and 11, the remaining Home windows variations stay comparatively unchanged by way of their market shares. Home windows 7 has 2.22% (-0.08 factors), Home windows XP is at puny 0.33% (+0.04 factors), and Home windows 8.1 is at 0.28% (-0.02 factors).

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