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Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base (www.tomshardware.com)
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Microsoft EVP Yusuf Mehdi said in a blog post last week that Windows powers over a billion active devices globally. This might sound like a healthy number, but according to ZDNET, the Microsoft annual report for 2022 said that more than 1.4 billion devices were running Windows 10 or 11. Given that these documents contain material information and have allegedly been pored over by the tech giant’s lawyers, we can safely assume that Windows’ user base has been quietly shrinking in the past three years, shedding around 400 million users.

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[–] 8 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Are people really actively using tablets? I thought that was more of a hype and is now something that lies around and gets occasional use on the couch, but not really productive.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    I've been using tablets since the first generation (Galaxy tab), and I must say that it kind of veered to that side after a while, since getting a convertible laptop. A few years back I got a Huawei tablet with a pen and keyboard, that had impressive battery, and it took the place of my convertible. While I'm a Linux-Android-occassional Windows guy, I now use an ipad (As much as I hate to admit, in the tablet space they are vastly superior), with keyboard and pen, for most of my away needs, and for general around the house stuff. I do a lot of graphic design and photo stuff, and thanks to Affinity's suite, I can actually do real work on the thing.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    As a student, yeah, I see lots of people using tablets for their work instead of laptops.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    please tell me they have those little external keyboards which would make them basically a shitty laptop

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Some do, but a lot also use it with a touch pen for notes.

    Honestly tablets are perfectly sufficient for most education related things, plus they're thin, light weight, and don't need to be plugged in constantly unlike the goobers who bring gaming laptops.

    I would've sprung for an iPad and done the same (though used a BT mechanical keyboard instead a chicklet one) if I wasn't in a CS degree that requires me to have a real OS that can run compilers, interpreters, multiple browsers, and uses a real folder structure.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Your average computer user is mainly using it for interacting with various web based services and playing media. Don't need good input methods for that so tablets are a cheaper and easier to maintain alternative to a laptop.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Old people are actively using tablets. Lots and lots of them. A significant cross-section of my Boomer-and-up client base uses an iPad to do absolutely everything. It's broadly the same experience as what they have on their phone, so I guess it's familiar, but the screen is giant so they can actually see it. They seem to like that.

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