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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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[–] StarryPhoenix97@lemmy.world 32 points 14 hours ago (12 children)

It's Linux for me but I also have to assume tablet culture plays a role too.

[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 10 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I think it's more to do with phones - people are just more likely to do most tasks on a phone rather than a laptop.

[–] the_wiz@feddit.org 3 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Absolutely! I observe this behaviour on myself: I am nowadays even sometimes coding on my phone (though, the experience is still... "suboptimal"), but for everything else? Its mostly fine.

[–] sommerset@thelemmy.club 3 points 4 hours ago

There is no way it's "mostly fine".
Small screen for consumption, large screen for creation, - only way it's fine if you don't create anything and just consume, which is I guess what most people do.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 hours ago

At best I'll use Termux as I am not in the mood to boot my pc and I juat need to edit some config file.

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