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Linuxiac: Windows Drops Under 60% in Global Desktop OS Share for the First Time in Years
Linuxiac: Windows Drops Under 60% in Global Desktop OS Share for the First Time in Years. “In June 2026, StatCounter reported that Windows made up 56.55% of global desktop OS usage, dropping Microsoft’s share below 60%. This is a big change for an operating system that has shaped desktop computing for decades and usually led its competitors by a wide margin.”
Microsoft's Windows operating system passes for the first time under the 60% market share on desktop PCs, allowing macOS and Linux to grow.
Windows dominated the PC market with 70% of shares a year ago. In June 2026, StatCounter's meter displays 56.55 %. The decrease is brutal, but the reasons are not those that one would imagine first. It is not a massive exodus to Linux or macOS. [...]
StatCounter's data for June 2026 indicate that Windows accounted for 56.55 percent of the global use of desktop operating systems, which put Microsoft's market share below 60 percent for the first time in years. Linux, for its part, reached 4.39%, one of its best performance of all time. These statistics fall into a context of massive rejection of Windows 11. Nevertheless, there is still some uncertainty about this data...
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