Operating Systems' Statistics in New Zealand: GNU/Linux Up, Windows Down to All-Time Lows
New Zealand is not a large country, but it is well educated and relatively technologically advanced. I know people who moved from the UK to New Zealand. They're clever people.
It seems like in a matter of 1.5 decades Microsoft managed to go down from 91% to 61% on New Zealand's desktops and laptops or from 90% to 28% if one counts mobile (iOS, Android and so on).
Remember all this when the media says that Microsoft became like 10 times more valuable in those 15 years (from 400 billion to 4,000 billion in alleged "worth"). It's a lie. It's financial fraud.
How does a company that lost 400 million users [1, 2] claim to be doubling in value while shutting down so many things, laying off so many workers and so on and so forth?
Clues are in this new and very active thread about IBM. As one person put it: "To be fair, the stock of MANY tech companies has been inflated – AND it still is even with the latest market corrections, we are here for a longer ride. It was going to happen eventually, but the fake bonanza would have lasted just a bit longer. The correction happened earlier as a result of other reasons, which forced the harsh reality to come out of the shadow." To quote an adjacent comment: "Perspective people. On 1/1/2024 IBM stock closed at $159. Absolutely nothing in the following 18 months justified the runup to $296. Just a bunch of empty promises about AI and Quantum that will never happen. It's headed right back to that level." █