THE latest Netcraft report has just come out (about an hour before I recorded this video) and it confirms a strong trend that we mentioned almost exactly a month ago. Microsoft is dying in Web servers and GNU/Linux has long been the victor. GNU/Linux is also growing on desktops/laptops (more so during lock-downs when people work from home). It's worth noting that Microsoft's collapse clearly accelerated during the pandemic, for reasons we've covered repeatedly since last year (including major incidents).

The bottom line is, expect Microsoft to continue its rapid collapse in the Web servers space. We very much doubt it's still profitable in that area, having reportedly paid some hosts to game the numbers until such payments were no longer sustainable.

GNU/Linux is used more than ever before. It's an unstoppable force. In terms like Free software, the dominant Web server software is Free (as in freedom) and it's becoming the norm.

All Microsoft can do now is resort to assimilation tactics and try to hijack the competition -- i.e. abduct the winner! As I point out in this video, 6 years down the line the whole "Microsoft loves Linux" campaign (a lie) has not worked. Microsoft and "Linux" are pretty much opposites because Microsoft loathes the licence of GNU and Linux. The next video, recorded while this current one was being uploaded, will look into the Linux Foundation, which isn't the same as Linux. It's an infiltration vector and it's corrosive to Linux. ⬆