Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base
Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base
Our mobile-first world is slowly killing the ubiquitous operating system.
Microsoft EVP Yusuf Mehdi said in a blog post last week that Windows powers over a billion active devices globally. This might sound like a healthy number, but according to ZDNET, the Microsoft annual report for 2022 said that more than 1.4 billion devices were running Windows 10 or 11. Given that these documents contain material information and have allegedly been pored over by the tech giant’s lawyers, we can safely assume that Windows’ user base has been quietly shrinking in the past three years, shedding around 400 million users.
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It's Linux for me but I also have to assume tablet culture plays a role too.
I think it's more to do with phones - people are just more likely to do most tasks on a phone rather than a laptop.
Absolutely! I observe this behaviour on myself: I am nowadays even sometimes coding on my phone (though, the experience is still... "suboptimal"), but for everything else? Its mostly fine.
There is no way it's "mostly fine".
Small screen for consumption, large screen for creation, - only way it's fine if you don't create anything and just consume, which is I guess what most people do.At best I'll use Termux as I am not in the mood to boot my pc and I juat need to edit some config file.
I bought a tablet and I feel like the money has been wasted. I use it maybe once a month.
Tablets are kind of in the middle of nowhere in terms of functionality at the moment, bigger and less practical than a phone, while being less capable than laptops. Its a shame, because on paper they look pretty great and they are insanely powerful nowadays
I just barely used my first one for the longest time, since I mostly played games or programmed on computers. Then I started to use it to read books and watch Netflix. I am on my 3rd one now and probably spend 60% of my computer time on it.
Me and my Steam Deck
Mostly used it in 2023 or so when I was sick on the couch. And yeah some hours on the trip I'm currently on. But it would just have been fine without.
Sometimes I see people post pictures use it in the most scenic locations, similar to the promotional video. And all I can think of is that if you want to play game so badly, you can just stay home. Much easier and also probably safer for the deck.
To each their own. Just hard to understand for me
According to StatCounter tablets never breached 7% market share, and even that was in 2014. Nowadays they are below 2%. Windows's lost userbase seems to be mostly about people using their phones for everything.