Around 500 Million Pcs Are Holding Off Upgrading To Windows 11, Says Dell

Windows users are transitioning to Windows 11 astatine a slower complaint than nan upgrade to Windows 10. Microsoft’s 10-year-old operating system, which conscionable deed nan extremity of support phase, is still proving celebrated among consumers and businesses. Dell revealed this week that astir 500 cardinal machines are tin of upgrading to Windows 11, but are sticking pinch Windows 10 instead.

“We person astir 500 cardinal of them tin of moving Windows 11 that haven’t been upgraded,” said Dell COO Jeffrey Clarke connected a Q3 net call earlier this week, referring to nan wide PC market, not conscionable Dell’s portion of machines. “And we person different 500 cardinal that are 4 years aged that can’t tally Windows 11.” He sees this arsenic an opportunity to guideline customers towards nan latest Windows 11 machines and AI PCs, but warns that nan PC marketplace is going to beryllium comparatively level adjacent year.

It’s nan first clip we’ve heard that arsenic galore arsenic 500 cardinal machines are holding disconnected upgrading to Windows 11, and that a akin magnitude simply can’t. Microsoft tightened its hardware requirements for Windows 11, leaving down millions of PCs that were sold complete nan past decade.

I expected millions of consumers to instrumentality pinch Windows 10 if they couldn’t upgrade owed to nan hardware requirements, but Microsoft’s decade-old OS is intelligibly a batch stickier among user and commercialized PCs than I thought.

Dell’s Windows 11 upgrade numbers travel conscionable a week aft Windows main Pavan Davuluri said that “nearly a cardinal group trust connected Windows 11.” It’s not clear what trust intends here, arsenic Microsoft has typically provided monthly instrumentality numbers successful nan past.