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    People are ditching Windows 10 ahead of the end of support

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    Windows 10 will receive its final update in less than three months. Even though Microsoft lets customers get one more year of updates for free, mainstream support is ending on October 14, 2025. Now, the ten-year-old operating system is on its final leg, and people are abandoning the sinking ship, as Statcounter reports.

     

    According to the latest data from the firm, Windows 10's market share is dropping. In July 2025, the operating system went from being head-to-head with Windows 11 to significantly lower than its successor. Now, Windows 10 has 42.99%, which is a 4.99-point drop in just one month. Year-over-year change is -22 points: from 64.99% to 42.99%.

     

    While there are plenty of "I am switching to Linux after Windows 10" articles circulating online, most Windows 10 refugees stay with Microsoft and simply upgrade to Windows 11, as Statcounter's data shows. Windows 11 jumped from 47.98% to 53.39%, which is a 5.41-point increase in only one month, a rare sight for the most controversial modern Windows release. Year-over-year change is +22.56 points.

    Desktop Windows Version Market Share Worldwide July 2024 - July 2025
    Chart and data by Statcounter

    Supported Windows versions hold over 96% of the Windows market. The rest is shared between Windows 7 (2.04%), Windows 8 (0.88%), Windows XP (0.44%), and Windows 8.1 (0.23%).

     

    If you are still on Windows 10, you might want to start planning your exit strategy. One option is to enroll in the Extended Security Update program, which will get you 12 more months of security-only updates. That is plenty of time to wait for more Windows 11 polish, device upgrade, or another alternative for Windows 10. Another option is to upgrade to Windows 11, even if your device is not supported. With Nvidia already having a deadline for the end of driver support on Windows 10, many users will have to leave the outgoing operating system behind sooner or later.

     

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    Posted Friday 1 August 2025 at 3:45 pm AEST (my time).

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    i will be keeping my 4790k PC until it dies, it works perfectly fine for everything i need, i don't use it for any banking or official government websites (only use my I phone for that).

    I did try to install Windows 11 twice using the well known Flyby 11 but it failed at the very last step booting into windows 11 and reverted the changes which ended up causing me all sorts of troubles and forced me to re-install windows 10(that was actually a good thing as it now runs better than before)

     

    I also believe that once nearly everyone is on windows 11 an update will come out that makes the use of cracked software nearly impossible.

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    1 hour ago, nothing1 said:

    i will be keeping my 4790k PC until it dies, it works perfectly fine for everything i need, i don't use it for any banking or official government websites (only use my I phone for that).

    I did try to install Windows 11 twice using the well known Flyby 11 but it failed at the very last step booting into windows 11 and reverted the changes which ended up causing me all sorts of troubles and forced me to re-install windows 10(that was actually a good thing as it now runs better than before)

     

    I also believe that once nearly everyone is on windows 11 an update will come out that makes the use of cracked software nearly impossible.

    if cracked software is killed ... windows market share will drop and they won't be the boss in future.

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    Heres what i see happening.. based on past events from microsoft..

    End of life for windows 10 in 3 months.. making everyone switch to windows 11 making them think that thats it for at least 2-3 years before the next OS release.

    then 6months the announcement for windows 12 will be coming out in a few months. which will make win11 look like a slow poke.

    When infact it will have more bloatware crap installed, more built in spyware, be twice the size of win11, require more memory and be slower and they would have fixed it so if you try to disable the spyware or bloatware it will stop working. 

     

     

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