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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          145 days ago

          And that’s honestly why this story isn’t the good news it appears to be. An entire generation growing up used to (or rather, used by) locked-down devices designed for consumption is a goddamned disaster!

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            95 days ago

            But if you say something like People should have basic IT knowledge you get called an elitist.

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              75 days ago

              And yet people are fine with:

              People should have basic cooking knowledge
              People should have basic financial knowledge

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            65 days ago

            Can’t use a computer when you’re tired and wanna lay in bed, or just browse memes on transit to work, or have a GPS in your pocket, or a camera in your pocket, or a portable communication device… etc

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              24 days ago

              Strap a minisfourm pc and battery pack to your back, run a usb cable up to your AR glasses. Strap a Svalboard to each hand and run the cables up your arms. Easy problem solved.

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          45 days ago

          Yea, people don’t even have computers now. Its happy tap the phone and love the Google, return to monke. We are the .00000001 percent.

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        35 days ago

        Android is not on this plot, it’s desktop only.

        The 2nd place is interestingly not Apple, but Unknown.

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      145 days ago

      Apparently Linux have 20% market share in Norway. That is… I don’t really believe it, but really cool if true.

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      215 days ago

      It can also be noted that the trend over time for the “unknown” category (which stands for 8 % today) follows the same trend as Linux. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to assume that Linux is over-represented in the “unknown” category, and may actually be closer to 5-7 %.