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Sean Endicott

Nearly 1 billion PCs remain on Windows 10 — Has Windows 11 adoption hit a wall?

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Windows 10 support ended in October, but around 1 billion PCs are still running the operating system. That figure comes from Dell's latest earnings call and suggests Microsoft will have an uphill battle to convert users to the latest version of the operating system.

"We have about 500 million of them capable of running Windows 11 that haven't been upgraded," said Dell COO Jeffrey Clarke during the company's Q3 earnings call. "And we have another 500 million that are four years old that can't run Windows 11. Those are all rich opportunities to upgrade towards Windows 11 and modern technology. Equally important AIPCs."

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