Over 40 percent don't meet Microsoft's notorious official system requirements. Lansweeper's Windows 11 readiness report shows that of 30 million workstations from 60,000 organizations, 57.26 percent are eligible for automatic Windows 11 updates. Other reports are far less dire but still not optimistic.

A new report claims those requirements are keeping a significant number of systems from upgrading and that Windows 11 adoption is lagging. The OS is headed toward 2.5 percent in terms of consumer share while barely passing 1 percent for business.The big picture: Windows 11 has been known for its onerous system requirements since before it launched. In terms of adoption trend, consumers are unsurprisingly ahead of businesses when it comes to Windows 11. We'd also find it hard to imagine many enterprises doing a wholesale upgrade until Windows 11 has been out for at least year or so and had time to settle down. With more than half of the devices surveyed incapable of a Windows 11 upgrade, thanks to Microsoft's stricter hardware requirements, customers would be forgiven for staying put. Microsoft gives tablets some love in latest Windows 11 build.New Windows 11 build boasts inbox updates and UI tweaks.Microsoft backtracks on lack of easy Windows browser choice.Windows 11 growth at a standstill amid stringent hardware requirements.'Many organizations have been put off from having to buy new machines that meet these conditions, while others are simply happy with the current existence of Windows 10 which continues to be supported until 2025.' 'Although the rate of adoption is increasing bit by bit, it's obvious that Windows 11 upgrades aren't going as fast as Microsoft had hoped, especially within the business environment,' said Roel Decneut, chief strategy officer at Lansweeper. Windows 8 only accounted for 1.99 percent while Windows 10 squatted on an impressive 80.34 percent of systems. The long-dead XP and recently culled Windows 7 were on 1.71 percent and 4.7 percent respectively. Upgrades might have tripled over the last three months, according to Lansweeper, but we'd contend that Windows 11 was starting from a pretty low base.Īpril's snapshot has Windows 11 on 1.44 percent of Windows machines surveyed. It makes for grim reading from Microsoft's perspective.

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