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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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[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 32 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

The article says Mac sales are declining too.
Apparently most of the decline is people that are simply ditching their PC because they don't need it anymore.

[–] thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 14 points 20 hours ago (5 children)

People ditching their PC because they don't need it anymore doesn't explain that the relative share of Mac and Linux has increased for the past 15 years though. Unless for some reason Windows users are more likely to ditch their PC because they don't need it than Mac or Linux users.

[–] bent@feddit.dk 10 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I think thats exactly it. A lot of the people begrudgingly have a PC. I bet most of those just use whatever the PC came with. Linux and Mac users are more likely to enjoy using a PC.

[–] TheodorAlforno@feddit.org 1 points 15 hours ago

Linux users NEED their computer. You don't put up with getting into Linux for fun except of you are a very special breed of geek.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 8 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Average people are also more likely to ditch their PCs than Linux users.

See the recent meme:

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[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I just installed Mint and some games on 5 Thinkpad T420s my boss was going to throw out. Sunday’s LAN party was pretty fun.

Is this my future?

[–] Damage@feddit.it 1 points 8 hours ago

If you're lucky

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 6 points 16 hours 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.

[–] Jamablaya@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago

I could quite literally just get by on my phone these days. I only use the laptop for the larger screen and something to hold an extremely large capacity SD card, as for whatever reason samsung flip phones don't have that anymore.

[–] REDACTED@infosec.pub 2 points 19 hours ago

MAC sales peaked 10-11 years ago.