You can see that pent-up demand in the jump between July 2015 and September 2015. And people who were still on Windows 7 were missing out on some of the nice quality-of-life additions and under-the-hood improvements that Windows 8 added. Windows 8 and 8.1 were not well-loved, to put it mildly, and Windows 10 was framed as a response to (and a fix for) most of Windows 8's user interface changes. Windows 11's adoption looks slow compared to Windows 10, but Windows 10's adoption was also exceptionally good. We charted the usage numbers for 64-bit versions of the operating systems (32-bit versions, along with versions like Vista and XP, are lumped into "other"), combining the numbers for Windows 8.1 and 8.0.īut there are other compelling explanations. In both cases, we used the Internet Wayback Machine to dig up seven months of data, including the month immediately before the release of each operating system. Windows 11 was released to the public in October 2021, and Windows 10 was released in July 2015. This data is imperfect and inevitably a bit noisy-Steam users need to volunteer to send in the data-but the disparity in adoption is large enough that we can draw at least some conclusions. We've pulled a few months' worth of the Steam Hardware & Software Survey data and compared it to the months immediately following Windows 10's release.
The company hasn't repeated that strategy for Windows 11, leaving us to rely on third-party data to see how quickly people are picking up the new OS. There was a time shortly after Windows 10's release when Microsoft would release specific adoption numbers frequently, trumpeting how quickly the then-novel free update was being adopted by users of Windows 7 and Windows 8.
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