Microsoft Windows Falls Below Quarter in "Market Share" (While Microsoft Fakes Rising Dominance... in Buzzwords and Fake Accounting)
Cooking the books while Windows gets 'cooked'
A few hours ago statCounter released new data and corresponding plots [1, 2] for preliminary May observations, with figures serving to affirm Microsoft's ongoing and rather rapid decline. There's no need for a PewDiePie's endorsement to accomplish this. Generally speaking, many people urgently look for a way out of Windows traps, not just Vista 10 (soon expired, wrongly assuming it'll herd people into TPM and convince them to consider new equipment purchases with hefty tariffs). Businesses in particular are dabbling in alternatives, which is why Microsoft-connected media has been aggressively shilling "WSL" (Windows) lately. The timing isn't "organic"; nor is the 'buzzwords tour' of Nadella this week [1, 2].
Here's Windows this month:
New low.
In desktops/laptops:
Of course the unpopular misnomer "AI" (Akira Urushibata and Jean Louis have good new rebuttals to that) does not in any way prevent people's ongoing mass abandonment of Windows; heck, it might even accelerate it. Sticking prompts (for slop) everywhere conceivable might help fake "interest" or "usage" (though The New York Times admits that too is down, based on Microsoft; "AI" demand is down, says Microsoft, but it's buried in noise). That's expected from such a terrible, unethical company, but it collectively and massively alienates people who just want to get real work done, no stupid gimmicks and toys needed/wanted. Slop mostly gets in the way with distraction and misinformation (not even worth seeing/reading). █