Microsoft Bankruptcy in Russia, Shutdown in Pakistan, What Next?
In the late 1990s Microsoft was still considered very dominant. Nowadays it's an "office joke" or "punchline".
In 2009 almost 99% of Web requests in Pakistan were seen as coming from Windows. A lot has changed since then. In India, for instance, it is Windows 12. 12% "market share". In Pakistan about 20%...
That's still far from 99%, right? And over time it goes down, and down, and down...
During a US national holiday Microsoft quietly shut down its operations in Pakistan [1, 2], having previously (rather quietly) done the same in Russia with a bankruptcy.
Don't try to dismiss that as meaningless. The population of Pakistan is almost as big as the EU's. Russia's land area "is about 1.7 times bigger than Europe." (Which is bigger than the EU alone)
Weeks ago many articles appeared stating that Microsoft itself admitted losing 400 million Windows users. Microsoft later "corrected" its 'wrong' article, seeing it had caused worry and angst among shareholders.
Must gaslight the shareholders, right? "Hey hi Hey hi Hey hi Hey hi!!" Das ist de fyucher.
Remember when it was "the cloud"? The very long Outlook outage (last week) was emblematic.
It's not question of if but where and when Microsoft will shut down operations next. The company is rapidly shrinking. It seems possible that in 2025 alone Microsoft will have laid off over 50,000 workers. █