Windows 11 market share keeps climbing despite all the issues

Microsoft’s problematic updates in January 2026 and even late 2025 apparently haven’t put a damper on Windows 11’s growth. The latest figures from Statcounter reveal that there’s still significant growth happening for Windows 11 into February 2026.

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The worldwide market share of Windows 11 users increased by 10.16 percentage points in February 2026, from 62.41 percent to 72.57 percent. At the same time, Windows 10’s market share fell from 35.77 percent to 26.45 percent (down 9.32 percentage points).

Windows 7 saw a slight uptick at the end of 2025, but now that ancient operating system has fallen to a user share of 0.62 percent.

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