Only 44.4 percent of company PCs are ready for an automatic upgrade and less than two percent have already upgraded, Lansweeper said. Although there is a strong nuance to this, because Windows 11 often pops up outside the company walls.
According to Lansweeper, 55 percent of corporate PCs cannot automatically upgrade to Windows 11. The main problem is with the right CPU (55.6 percent is not sufficient) or with the need for TPM. There, about 19 percent failed the test and 28 percent were incompatible or not enabled.
Announced late
That in itself is not a huge surprise because Windows 11 has very specific system requirements and was announced very last minute. Many hardware makers have therefore started late with systems that are fully compatible with Windows 11, and it will take a while before they also show up in the office.
But the most notable figure in Lansweeper’s research is that Windows 11 appears on just 1.44 percent of devices. Three months ago this was only half a percent. That deserves some nuance and is actually not representative.
Businesses vs Consumers
Lansweeper gets its data from about thirty million devices in sixty thousand companies, presumably companies that use Lansweeper. From this it concludes that today 80.34 of the devices run on Windows 10 and 4.7 percent on Windows 7, which is no longer supported. Even Windows 8 (1.99 percent) and Windows XP (1.71 percent) outperform Windows 11.
The main nuance here is that they are numbers from corporate environments. Although Windows 11 has been available for half a year, IT departments traditionally always wait a while before migrating to a new operating system en masse. They want to make sure that the new system is mature enough, but also that all their own software runs smoothly on the new OS before everyone upgrades. Historically, the big waves of upgrades in business only started once there was a first Service Pack (a major update that came out after 1-2 years with Windows XP, among others).
Not 1.44 percent but 8.45 percent
To get a more accurate picture of the popularity of Windows 11, you need to look at both business users and consumers. Statcounter gives a better picture there. There, data about the OS is collected on the basis of analytics on about two million sites. So here we are talking about PCs that are actively used by people.
There we learn that Windows 11 will be running on about 8.45 percent of devices worldwide in March 2022, compared to 74.82 percent for Windows 10 and 12.11 percent for Windows 7.
To be clear, Lansweeper’s data is not wrong, but is in no way representative of all Windows devices. At the same time, it is currently no sign that less than two percent of business devices run on Windows 11. After all, it’s not uncommon for companies to shy away from an upgrade, and the sudden launch and slightly more complex system requirements aren’t conducive to that process.
In collaboration with Data News
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