The latest Steam Hardware Survey shows Windows with a commanding 93.47% share of users on the platform, but below that muscular statistic lies a far more embarrassing one: Only 67.74% of Steam users are on Windows 11, almost five years after its initial release.
Perhaps even more surprising, six months after Windows 10's official end of life, more than a quarter of Steam users (25.53%) are still on the moribund OS, which had its own official release almost 11 years ago. I find it difficult to see this as anything but a massive blunder for the default PC operating system, though the hardware market is also contributing to Microsoft's adoption problem.
With the notable exception of a whole lot of Copilot AI nonsense, Windows 11 has stabilized into functionally the same user experience as Windows 10 after a rocky beginning. That's not bad, but it's hardly a compelling reason to upgrade.
Windows 11's early tarnis...
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