Microsoft Has a Google Problem (and GNU/Linux Problem) in Sweden

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 07, 2025

Sweden likes Chromebooks, Web access data suggests

ChromeOS rose again in Sweden (now at around 17% "market share" or 9% if one counts iOS and Android as well):

ChromeOS is based on Gentoo GNU/Linux, so this is a half-victory for "Linux" too.

Microsoft's Bing has lost so-called "Search Share" (if Google still counts as search rather than garbage with links to other garbage) since the LLM hype began:

Bing is now lower than it was 2 years ago when Microsoft made a lot of noise about "Bing Chat" while asking select media to lie about Google being "doomed". █

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