'AdDuplex report: 16% of PC users have Windows 11 installed'

Microsoft’s Windows 11 operating system market share grew to over 16% in January 2022, according to AdDuplex.

The company monitors "approximately 60,000" Windows 10 and Windows 11 computers and frequently releases reports detailing changes to the operating system.

Microsoft revealed that Windows runs on 1.4 billion active devices every month, but did not reveal how many of those devices were running Windows 11.

The AdDuplex report provides insights into Windows 11 performance, but to be clear, these numbers are not official and are based on a sample size of 60,000 PCs.

According to AdDuplex, as of January 27, 2022, 16.1% of the 60,000 PCs monitored by the company were running Microsoft's Windows 11 operating system. Microsoft released the operating system in October 2021, and that number increased to 9% by November 2021, according to AdDuplex. Another 0.4% of devices run the Insider version of Windows 11. If we take Microsoft's 1.4 billion devices as an example, as of January 2022, there are more than 220 million devices running Windows 11.

16.5% of devices run Windows 11 and 83.5% run Windows 10. More than 50% of monitored devices run Windows 10 versions 20H2 and 21H1, but Windows 10 version 21H2 is growing rapidly and has reached 12.1%. AdDuplex noted that Windows 10 version 21H2's share "more than tripled" while Windows 11's share "nearly doubled."

Reports say older versions of Windows 10 are still widely used. Windows 10 version 2004 accounts for 9.7% of all PCs, and even older versions Windows 10 versions 1909, 1903, and earlier account for 7% of the total.

Microsoft announced this month that it is offering early upgrade offers to all Windows 10 PCs that meet Windows 11 system requirements. Microsoft originally planned to make the service available to all device owners by mid-2022. Upgrade offers are optional at this time, and administrators will need to accept the download and installation offer to upgrade devices to Windows 11.

Not all devices will receive the upgrade offer, as Microsoft has previously announced that it will not offer Windows 11 through Windows Update to devices that do not meet the requirements for the new operating system. In particular, processor and TPM requirements will prevent PCs from upgrading to Windows 11. While there are options to bypass these restrictions, this may not be a viable option for most users. These devices are stuck on Windows 10, which will lose support at the end of 2025. What will happen then is up for debate.

Is the roughly 16% of Windows PCs at this stage of the launch a large percentage? The lack of official data makes this question difficult to answer. Microsoft is not yet offering upgrade offers to all eligible PCs. The percentage of PCs that didn't receive the upgrade offer is also unknown: is it 10%, 25%, or more?

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