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Tom’s Hardware
Tom’s Hardware
Technology
Mark Tyson

Windows 11 skips past 50% market share milestone in latest Steam survey

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Microsoft’s Windows 11 operating system strode past a major market share milestone in August. The newest version of Windows gained an impressive 3.36% market share, according to the newest Steam Hardware Survey data. Thanks to this significant rise, Windows 11 was the OS of choice of over 50% of Steam users in August 2024, or 50.81% of users - to be precise.

Looking closer at the OS popularity data, the growth of Windows 11 in August seems to be entirely from people moving up from Windows 10. As Windows 11 gained 3.36%, Windows 10 lost 3.29% of its Steam user base. Tiny numbers of the remaining Windows 8.1, Windows 7, and ‘other’ devotees also appear to have migrated.

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