Talk:Windows 11

In July 2025, Windows 11’s desktop market share reached 51.8%.

This statement is seriously incorrect, even though the original source (StatCounter) continues to claim it. However, StatCounter's figures do not add up at all and are mathematically impossible in parts. This becomes clear when looking at the figures for individual countries. In Asia, the seven most populous countries have a Windows 11 share of between 24.4% and 52.8%, with an average normalized to the number of inhabitants of 34.1%. Nevertheless, the total figure for Asia is said to be 57.9% (!). This is mathematically impossible. Even if the remaining countries in Asia all have 100% Windows 11, the average would only be just over 50%. The figures from StatCounter are simply wrong, at least for the last few months. 223.204.218.172 (talk) 06:20, 3 August 2025 (UTC)

Semesters

Under Updates and Support, the Versions table has a Semester column. Semester's definition in Wikpedia & elsewhere disagrees with the usage in this article. According to Wikpedia's "List_of_Microsoft_codenames", the Semester column entries are Codenames and the Codename column entries are Windows Codenames, with version numbers. So, 2 column labels need correcting. 99.7.207.171 (talk) 18:26, 9 August 2025 (UTC)

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"Some components open source"

The "Source model" row of the infobox currently describes Windows 11 as "Some components open source", with citations showing that Windows Terminal, Windows Calculator, Windows Driver Frameworks, and Windows Forms are released under open-source licenses. When there are well over 100 Windows components listed in List of Microsoft Windows components, Template:Microsoft Windows components, and Category:Windows components, nearly all of which are closed-source, noting "Some components open source" to highlight four of these components is undue weight in the infobox. I support removing this line from the infobox. — Newslinger talk 07:49, 11 December 2025 (UTC)

Removed in Special:Diff/1330836606. — Newslinger talk 21:30, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

Version 26H1 is not the latest for all hardware platforms

In table Windows_11 #Versions the version 26H1 is marked as "latest" (green). This is true for ARM devices. For most users, however, 25H2 is still the latest because 26H1 is not available for their CPU (x86_64). Not sure how varying platform support is handled for other software in Wikipedia. I think the current table is confusing and suggest that 25H2 and 26H1 should both be marked greed. A footnote or extra column could indicate the respective hardware platform support. --~2026-19672-45 (talk) 11:40, 29 March 2026 (UTC)

K2

Windows K2 is supposed to be an internal Microsoft push to realign Windows 11 more closely with what users want: link. It's interesting, but I'm not quite sure where to stick this in the article. We've got a section about updates, which seems like the obvious place to put it at first thought, but you'd have to talk about gaming performance and scaling back AI features, which are only discussed in the reception. Thinking about it a bit more, perhaps the K2 initiative could be discussed in the reception section because it's reportedly a response to consumer dissatisfaction. Any ideas? If nobody says anything, I think I'll probably add a line to the reception, but rewriting the updates section to be a little more informative could also work. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 16:18, 1 May 2026 (UTC)