THIS site is keeping track of various estimates of market share, including Web servers, Gemini, and operating systems. In Canada, for instance, this month's figures (thus far, to date) show Windows holding onto just 65% on the desktop/laptop (GNU/Linux and ChromeOS at around 7%) and approaching 30% overall as it falls further and further; it reaches all-time lows. There's nothing that can change this anymore. Version inflation/bump only means more maintenance overhead, i.e. higher expenses.

"Beware the distractions. There are decoys."Days ago it was reported that about half of existing PCs cannot run Vista 11. All those additional restrictions are meant to harm GNU/Linux, but they also harm Microsoft. Poor PC sales mean that licences of Vista 11 aren't being sold much and the market share of Vista 11 is estimated to be 2.61% 15 months after release (Microsoft's sole response is announcing new vapourware, Vista 12).

Beware the distractions. There are decoys. ⬆

"In the face of strong competition, Evangelism's focus may shift immediately to the next version of the same technology, however. Indeed, Phase 1 (Evangelism Starts) for version x+1 may start as soon as this Final Release of version X."

--Microsoft, internal document [PDF]