zdnet[.]com/article/how-many-windows-10-pcs-are-still-in-use-no-one-knows-but-they-try-to-tell-you-anyway/
The TL;DR [summary] -- since it's the beginning of the month it's time for all sorts of articles comparing Win10 and Win11 market share based on the latest figures from Statcounter. Problem is, those figures just reflect a very small slice of internet traffic, and are skewed on top of that because of the nature of the limited data that is collected. Win11 is gaining market share if for no other reason than that's what comes on new laptops & PCs, and people and biz have been buying new laptops and PCs for the last several years the same as always. Otherwise, some Win10 PCs & laptops will die, some people have been and will continue to upgrade from Win10 to Win11, some of them will switch back to Win10, some will move to Linux, and no doubt a relative few will install Win10 on new PCs & laptops. Without access to Microsoft's data that's all we know, & pretty much all we can know.
Statcounter represents a tiny sliver of actual traffic on the web, mostly from fairly esoteric websites that have chosen to embed the Statcounter tracking code on their websites, like Futbin.com, Filmyzilla.com.fj, Ask.com, and Kernel.org. They can't count traffic from the most popular sites on the web, like Google, Facebook, or Wikipedia.It's like trying to do a survey of consumer behavior without including Costco, Walmart, Home Depot, Target, CVS, or any Kroger grocery store. By leaving out those giants, your sample becomes quirky and almost certainly not representative of the greater market.
More importantly, Statcounter measures only pageviews, not visits or sessions. If I go to a site that uses the Statcounter service and visit five pages on my Windows 11 PC, and you load 10 pages with your Windows 10 PC, the results in Statcounter's "market share" report will show that Windows 10 is twice as popular as Windows 11. You see the problem here, I presume.
Of course, that assumes all those pageviews are even counted. On my Windows 11 PC, where I use Microsoft Edge with its tracking protection set to Strict, Statcounter's tracking code is automatically blocked. Oops.