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Complaining about Windows 11 is a popular sport among tech enthusiasts on the Internet, whether you’re publicly switching to Linux<\/a>, publishing guides<\/a> about the dozens of things you need to do to make the OS less annoying, or getting upset<\/a> because you were asked to sign in to an app after clicking a sign-in button.<\/p>\n

Despite the negativity surrounding the current version of Windows, it remains the most widely used operating system on the world’s desktop and laptop computers, and people usually prefer to stick to what they’re used to. As a result, Windows 11 has just cleared a big milestone\u2014Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said on the company’s most recent earnings call (via The Verge<\/a>) that Windows 11 now has over 1 billion users worldwide.<\/p>\n

Windows 11 also reached that milestone just a few months quicker than Windows 10 did\u20141,576 days after its initial public launch on October 5, 2021. Windows 10 took 1,692 days to reach the same milestone, based on its July 29, 2015, general availability date and Microsoft’s announcement<\/a> on March 16, 2020.<\/p>\n

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