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Summary: Windows is at 9.8% of "the market" this month in Turkey, based on a Web survey (3 million sites); we might be seeing the gradual end of Windows as a financially viable product line

TODAY is the fourth of July, so many Americans celebrate independence from the British.

Earlier today we saw reports about China propelling itself towards independence from Western software companies. It invests a lot in its own GNU/Linux distributions (the main ones are based on Debian and Ubuntu).

Some nations understandably try to remove back doors that Western intelligence agencies control. It's a risk they cannot afford. In Turkey, despite NATO membership, there's a lot of distrust and its military moved to GNU/Linux ages ago. Universities, schools, and municipalities followed or still follow...

Only days ago (in July) one of the Turkish GNU/Linux distros announced a new release.

You know Microsoft is losing the monopoly when a nation like Turkey with a population of 85 million people rejects Windows (in July we see Windows at 9.8% there; Android dominates)...

The graph is shown in the video above and it's discussed a little further. In the Web server market, Windows fell from "almost majority" to "negligible" (about 2%) in just a decade or so. Will the same happen in desktops and laptops? The trends among gamers are encouraging. ⬆