Business adoption of Windows 11 lags behind consumer adoption. Lansweeper noted its previous survey of 30 million Windows devices at businesses found that only about 45% were eligible for the free Windows 11 upgrade. The machines must also come built with a security feature called Trusted Platform Module ( TPM), although you can install Windows 11 manually on many unsupported systems. The Windows 11 free upgrade is only officially arriving for PCs that are, at most, four to five years old. Lansweeper suspects one reason why Windows 11 adoption is so low is due to the hardware requirements for the OS. All the data from the survey was collected “from aggregated, anonymized data points,” with user consent, the company added. Lansweeper said its own survey comprises 20% enterprise systems and another 80% from consumer machines through polling done by the company’s Fing network security scanner product.

Meanwhile, the Steam hardware survey from Valve estimates Windows 11 usage has reached 16.8%. Last month, the app advertising platform AdDuplex found Windows 11 usage was at 19.4%, although this represented a mere 0.1% growth from the previous month.

It’s also important to note that other surveys have found much higher Windows 11 adoption numbers. In contrast, Windows 10 maintains a dominant share at 80.34%.Īlthough Windows 11’s adoption is low at 1.44%, the number actually went up almost three times from 0.52% back in January. The results found that only 1.44% of the devices had Windows 11 installed, which is lower than the 1.71% for Windows XP.

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