Comment on Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base

youngalfred@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• CameronDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Yeah, this is just terrible journalism.

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  • youngalfred@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I love how they went into so much detail about why the old numbers would be accurate, then proceed to say they can ‘safely’ say that windows has lost 400 million users over a sentence on a blog stating windows has ‘over a billion users’.

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    • CameronDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Also quite disappointing that no one is questioning, “where did they go”. If Chromebooks or Apple picked up a fraction of the “lost” users, they’d be shouting from the rooftops. And a fraction of those users would crush most Linux distros infrastructure, so we’d have heard something.

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      • Cort@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        What Linux infrastructure? The wikis and torrent links?

        Fwiw, I’ve switched 2 computers in my house to Linux. Still researching to find out if I can switch my z13 tablet and keep all the functionality.

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      • rbos@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Speaking from a university perspective - we’ve been scaling back our computer labs a fair bit, as there’s a lot of people with personal laptops and tablets now. Almost half our former workstations are now eliminated or BYOD.

        So a lot of Windows machines are just gone.

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