06.02.23
Posted in GNU/Linux, Microsoft, Search, Windows at 8:01 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Windows down to 11% in Africa:
Summary: Microsoft, with 80 billion dollars in longterm debt and endless layoffs, is losing the monopolies; the media doesn’t mention this, but some publicly-accessible data helps demonstrate that
THE MEDIA is in a truly terrible shape, but we can say here what the media is mostly ignoring, maybe because it’s considered “advertisers-unfriendly”.
We’re now in the month of June. The numbers from African are quite telling (Android, which includes Linux, approaches 80% market share), GNU/Linux + KDE + DRM (SteamOS/Steam Deck) means that gamers are flocking to GNU/Linux (Microsoft's grip on gamers is slipping), GNU/Linux apparently rises to 14% market share in India, and worldwide GNU/Linux is estimated at 3% now (an all-time high by this firm’s yardstick; it had issues with unclassified data in recent months). The news must be very displeasing to Microsoft, which is laying off a lot of staff every month this year. Since all this “HEY HI” (AI) hype in the media started back in January (Microsoft SPAM, paid-for chaff that distracts from layoffs) the market share of Bing fell and continues to fall.
“Microsoft is run by thugs and criminals, so wasn’t this blackmail expected?”Reportedly, as of today, Microsoft is blackmailing the UK over the decision of CMA. Microsoft is run by thugs and criminals, so wasn’t this blackmail expected? █
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05.22.23
Posted in Deception, Google, Microsoft, Search at 10:12 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Reality:
But forget about reality… Microsoft was eager to tell people they don’t need search engines and should instead get hyped-up chatbots.
Paid-for Microsoft fluff aplenty (we give just one example from each month; the marketing/propaganda strategy changed). Starting with January:
February:
March:
April:
May:
Summary: With an estimated market share of 93% worldwide, Google Search has only gained share [1, 2] — not lost share — since Microsoft introduced vapourware for Bing (whilst in fact laying off a lot of Bing staff — a simple fact that the media barely mentioned)
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05.14.23
Posted in Microsoft, Search at 10:57 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
When corporations become too big they start buying and controlling the press. Remember “metaverse”?
DuckDuckGo is a proxy of Microsoft; more people realise this and quit using it [1, 2]
Source data: Relative share by search host (ODF, data retrieved from here)
Summary: It bears repeating that Microsoft is in a state of crisis (burning energy for LLMs using mostly unused/abandoned Azure capacity is money down the drain; there’s no business model!) and all those paid-for media narratives about Google being doomed (Windows is doomed) are ludicrous because Bing is collapsing and there are many layoffs (even whole offices are being vacated in Bellevue)
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05.04.23
Posted in Deception, Microsoft, Search at 9:42 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Don’t believe the hype (a shameless lying blitz)
Summary: The ‘father’ of Bing left Microsoft, many Bing employees were laid off earlier this year, and the remaining ones relocated out of their office in Bellevue; the media is meanwhile hyping up the “Bing” brand (we saw new examples this morning) and pretending that Google is doomed; the data does not support this phony narrative (it’s more or less the same in other regions around the world; overall, worldwide, Bing market share is measured at about 2.5%)
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05.01.23
Posted in America, Microsoft, Patents, Search at 6:51 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Even in places/geographies where Microsoft does a lot of “marketing” and back room deals the market share of Bing falls noticeably (there were also many Bing layoffs this year).
Search Engine Market Share North America Nov 2022 – Apr 2023: (link)
Down by a lot since all the fake hype started (from 7% to about 5.5%)
Search Engine Market Share Europe Nov 2022 – Apr 2023: (link)
Down by a lot since all the fake hype started (from 4% to about 3%)
Summary: We keep reminding people that the media/press is lying for Microsoft; not only is Bing not gaining, as in practice it is universally falling quite sharply and there are layoffs in that division (some of those who survived the layoffs are now vacated from the offices in Bellevue, WA)
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04.26.23
Posted in America, Free/Libre Software, GNU/Linux, Google, Microsoft, Search at 3:43 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Since Microsoft introduced its hyped-up chatbot (HypeGPT) Bing’s market share in Brazil fell from about 2.5% to only about 1.5% (watch out, Google! You’re doomed due to chaff and hype!)
GNU/Linux has millions of desktop/laptop users in Brazil in spite of the horrible things Microsoft did there (presentation from last month):
Summary: In spite of some perils or growing pains, there are millions of GNU/Linux users in Lula’s country and Microsoft faces a crisis
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04.24.23
Posted in Deception, Google, Microsoft, Search at 7:04 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Example of media ‘spam’ today (just yet more of that “GOOGLE IS DEAD” talking point; ever since ChatGPT was introduced Bing consistently lost share; it is a de facto censorship and distortion machine):
What has “Bloom” been smokin’?
Consider the public data. Microsoft is down, not up:
Summary: There’s a lot of noise in the media today*; it serves to distract from a fresh round of Microsoft layoffs
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* Microsoft trolls including ‘Gulagboy’ Matthew Garrett also did a lot of a very aggressive trolling in IRC yesterday. This is bordering on the criminal.
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04.10.23
Posted in Deception, Google, Microsoft, Search at 10:38 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Summary: Over the past few months Microsoft-sponsored “media” kept saying that Google was doomed because of some chaffbot (smokescreen, vapourware or chaff amid Microsoft layoffs, including many in Bing), but judging by the actual data Bing is down from 3.6% to 2.6% (it lost about 30% of its relative share in only 6 months)
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