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Windows 11 skips past 50% market share milestone in latest Steam survey

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Windows 11 skips past 50% market share milestone in latest Steam survey

Microsoft’s Windows 11 operating system strode past a major market share milestone in August. The newest version of Windows gained an impressive 3.36% market share, according to the newest Steam Hardware Survey data. Thanks to this significant rise, Windows 11 was the OS of choice of over 50% of Steam users in August 2024, or 50.81% of users – to be precise.

Looking closer at the OS popularity data, the growth of Windows 11 in August seems to be entirely from people moving up from Windows 10. As Windows 11 gained 3.36%, Windows 10 lost 3.29% of its Steam user base. Tiny numbers of the remaining Windows 8.1, Windows 7, and ‘other’ devotees also appear to have migrated.

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It is pretty big news that Windows 11 has at last gone over 50% in this gamer-centric survey, after nearly three years of availability and heavy promotion. However, Windows 10 isn’t giving up without a fight. In May, we noticed that Statcounter figures were actually showing a small Windows 10 resurgence. This goes against the grain of factors like the difficulty in finding PCs for sale with the older OS installed, being able to buy copies of the older OS, and Microsoft’s pushy sales and upgrade techniques nagging folk to make the switch.

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