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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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[–] 6 points 1 year ago

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share#monthly-200901-202505

Both Linux and MacOS look fairly flat overall, with a few spikes for Mac. What did happen was iOS and especially Android went to the moon.

Most people had a PC for a bit of light office work, emails and storing pictures. All of that can be done on a phone and more besides. It's not great that a handful of Silicon Valley techbros are holding everyone's data to ransom, but that's what the masses are doing.

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