Sujet : Falling Windows Market Share
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : comp.os.linux.advocacy alt.comp.os.windows-11Date : 24. Jun 2025, 23:19:23
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Ed Bott
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https://www.zdnet.com/article/400-million-windows-pcs-vanished-in-3-years-where-did-they-all-go/>
has noticed an interesting signal in among all the noise of
Microsoft’s PR boasts: the installed base of Microsoft Windows has
been shrinking, and quite substantially.
As recently as 3 years ago, Microsoft trumpeted an installed base of
1.4 billion Windows PCs; but the best it can say today is “over a
billion”.
So somewhere around 300 million machines have disappeared from that
count in that period. Were they all retired? Or were a few of them
switched to some other OS?