Microsoft is at 0% "Market Share" in Most Areas
Running a cartel in one market segment does not assure sustainability
There have been many articles this past week about the "market share" of GNU/Linux, e.g. half a dozen listed in this page (we saw at least half a dozen more). But all those articles speak about desktops and laptops.
What's missed out?
- Various integrated circuits
- Web servers
- Mail servers
- Supercomputers
- Tablets
- Phones
- Home appliances
- Cars
And so on and so forth... it goes rather far. Depending on the taxonomy chosen, there may be dozens of categories other than desktops and laptops.
In E-mail, for instance, clap for Microsoft at 0.2% "market share". Web servers? About 2%. In top supercomputers, 0%. In phones, also 0%. When did you last enter an automobile that ran Windows?
This is why yesterday we published Linux Already Has About 60% of the "Market" (depending on what one means by "the market").
The corporate media likes to talk about how Intel is doomed, yet that same media refuses to say the same about Microsoft only because of the ludicrous share price. What are such stock valuations based on anyway? Revisit Symptom or Hallmark of Ponzi Schemes: Microsoft Says It Gains Over 100 Million Dollars in "Goodwill" and Its Speculative "Value" Nearly Doubled to $119,329,000,000 in the Past Year Alone (Microsoft's value is something that does not even exist).
We're all ears if someone can properly explain to us what makes Microsoft "worth" trillions.
These speculative bubbles are trouble in the making. Even the supposed "market leader", AWS, has layoffs... again. Same as Azure, which has had mass layoffs every year since 2020. This has nothing to do with "hey hi", it's just bad economics.
They said they were doing so well and "the cloud" was the future. What happened?
Consider perverse capital flows [1, 2] (few people getting very rich at the expense of the many who are poor) and also relevant to that discussion is this report. So a company that allegedly received 14,000 million dollars (14 billion) in "investment" (just recently for only about 1,000 people!) is already sacking about 25% of its staff. Really? As an associate put it: "Where did the $14 000 000 000 disappear to so suddenly?"
I said, "was it real money? Or "ma dog invested in ma homework?"
"It was probably funny money," the associate remarked, "When business claim 'cash' that is usually a lie and it is an anything-but-actual-cash transaction. Like Microsoft v OpenAI."
Remember how Microsoft said back in January it would "invest" 80 billion dollars in "hey hi". It very quickly turned out to be a lie and Microsoft workers in that area are also laid off.
Microsoft's future is as bright as Intel's. 3 days ago Microsoft booster Paul Thurrott wrote: "Where Microsoft is flying high, Intel is circling the drain."
Nope, they are both circling the drain.
The difference is, Microsoft's shareholders don't seem to be aware of it. Not yet. █