Another Large Country Where Vista 11 Fell to Usage Levels No Better Than 16 Months Ago

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 10, 2024

Maybe those PCs are converted to or replaced by GNU/Linux. This is what the data about KSA says:

Desktop Windows Version Market Share Saudi Arabia: Jan 2009 - June 2024

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