Comment on Windows 11 could actually become the same kind of mistake Sony made with the PS3
stevedice@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
lol no. As much as I would love for Microsoft to go die in a hole, nobody is moving away from Windows. Sensationalist headlines heralding the downfall of Microsoft due to Windows $CURRENT being the worst ever version of Windows have been around since the epoch of Windows itself. People are always moving in droves to Linux. People are always refusing to update to Windows $CURRENT. I’ve heard it. You’ve heard it. We’ve all heard it. And we’ll all keep hearing it until the end of times. In the meantime, corporations still depend on that one piece of software they paid for 10 years ago that only runs on Windows, and people are still buying new machines that an OEM already put the latest version of Windows on.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Yes and no
Windows market share is falling to other platforms. It won’t go away overnight but the current trajectory of Microsoft isn’t good.
Honesty a large portion of the market share is now Android. People are choosing mobile devices over desktops.
stevedice@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Sure, Windows has been steadily losing marketshare to mobile for years now but that has nothing to do with Windows 11 being so bad that it will destroy Microsoft. I’m not saying Windows isn’t gonna die eventually, I’m saying nobody is there’s no sudden “statistically significant” shift away from it that will impact Microsoft the wat the PS3 impacted Sony. Things are as they’ve always been and by the look of things, they’ll continue to be that way until desktops are mostly phased out by phones.