This month marks two years for the reason that launch model of Windows 11 has been available on the market. How’s it doing by way of customers? According to unconfirmed inside information from Microsoft, there are over 400 million units working the flagship working system. Which sounds spectacular…till you take a look at the info for Windows 10. By the identical mark in 2017, Windows 10 was on over 500 million units, in line with Microsoft’s annual report for that year. Windows 11 is certainly seeing a slower uptick.

The inside Microsoft information was cited by Windows Central (Microsoft hasn’t revealed whole numbers publically prefer it did earlier than), however is broadly in keeping with traits from public sources. For instance, Statcounter exhibits Windows 10 nonetheless working on greater than 70% of Windows-powered units as of September, with Windows 11 reaching just below 24 %. Again, evaluating the identical information to Windows 10’s two-year mark, it was put in on virtually 38 % of PCs.

That mentioned, the outlook isn’t as poor as that 100 million person hole would possibly recommend. Windows 10 was coming off the broadly unpopular Windows 8 and its famously unwelcome person interface shift, with the previous seen as a wanted course correction. Even essentially the most Windows fan will admit that 11 is less necessary as an upgrade. Windows 11 additionally has some further {hardware} necessities which have locked out a substantial variety of older machines, and we’re at present coming out of a historic PC sales slump.

If you wish to be extra encouraging, Microsoft is being a bit much less manipulative than it was through the earlier transitionary interval. According to the unconfirmed report, Microsoft expects Windows 11 to go the five hundred million mark subsequent 12 months.

Still, with the free upgrade path now closed and an AI-infused Windows 12 rumored for a 2024 debut, Microsoft would certainly wish to see these numbers go up. Maybe it ought to work on getting a few of these familiar interface tweaks again into Windows 11 within the meantime — in any case, it labored earlier than.