zdnet[.]com/article/windows-11-is-it-really-less-popular-than-windows-xp-spoiler-no/
It makes sense that today Win11 is installed on fewer PCs than Win10 -- Windows 10 has been available for around 6 years now, while every new PC & laptop bought since then probably came with it installed. Win10 also had the advantage of better performance gaming. Win11 OTOH is known primarily for it strict hardware requirements -- sure, you can install it on unqualified hardware, IF you assume the risk that Microsoft may someday refuse to supply you with security updates. [In a few years when support for Win10 ends, if Microsoft is still supplying updates to unsupported hardware, that risk will be much less.]
The company, Lansweeper, however issued a press release saying Win11 is less popular than XP, which was quite the stretch. Ed Bott put it to rest.
This company is not the first to try to boost its reputation by flinging around numbers of questionable provenance. One Windows ad network sent out a press release last month insisting that Windows 11 adoption was up to 19.3%, which is ludicrously high.The biggest driver of Windows 11 adoption will, of course, be in new PC sales. OEMs have sold more than 150 million new PCs in the six months since Windows 11 was released. Most of the consumer PCs, it's safe to argue, came with Windows 11 preinstalled, while most of the business PCs shipped with Windows 10 (enterprises typically upgrade by replacing hardware, not by allowing employees to download upgrades from Microsoft's servers).
Either way, that's tens of millions of new Windows 11 PCs.
If history is any guide, those PC replacement cycles will push the installed base of Windows 11 to roughly equal status with Windows 10 in about three years. But you won't learn that from a press release.