Re: Falling Windows Market Share

On Wed, 25 Jun 2025 01:01:13 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Tue, 24 Jun 2025 19:57:40 -0400, Paul wrote:
 

Microsoft still has a pile of cash, and there's no chance of it just
disappearing ...

 
Everything will be fine until the day you wake up and realize it isn’t.
 
Now we see the reason for this Windows/Xbox mashup idea that they’re
promoting: by joining two different declining markets together into a
single product, they hope to prop up both businesses.
 
The trouble with that is: combining different product lines only makes
sense if you get some synergy out of it. In this case, we just have two
mediocre product components dragging each other down.

Tohse recent layoffs muddy the water too. It was never something I planned
on but if I were a young developer I don't think I'd spend too much time
on MAUI. UWP was a flop and sort of slithered into MAUI, with reduced
expectations.