VissJul 1

oh jeez i wonder what could possibly have led to this

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/windows-seemingly-lost-400-million-users-in-the-past-three-years-official-microsoft-statements-show-hints-of-a-shrinking-user-base

Show threadVissJul 1

the math works out here to ms losing 9.5% of its userbase year over year for the last 3 years running.

400 million users out of 1.4 billion is 28.5%

so in 3 years, ms has lost nearly ONE THIRD of its userbase.

stuff that in your kernel and crowdstrike it.

Show threadCodingPanic
@Viss that’s a huge drop… where are these users going? Apple? Linux? Somewhere else?
Jul 1 at 12:33amIvory for iOS
Show threadJoel MichaelJul 1
@codingpanic @Viss Android and/or iOS
Show threadVissJul 1

@jpm @codingpanic according to the article, people are bailing out to a bunch of places. it suggests 'just mobile in general', and also not being forced to cope with shitty ms file formats, people can just go wherever they want. google docs, libreoffice, whatevs. its all interoperable now.

microsofts 'big deal' was office and they tried to lock down the file formats way back when so only ms shit could read/write ms formats.

well thats changed now.
ms is taking their ball and going home