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Windows and Microsoft's Other 'Burning Platforms'

...To use Elop's own words (we shall write about Nokia separately some time later)



Summary: It's not just Windows for phones that's reaching minuscule market share levels but also Windows, but Microsoft is skilled at hiding this (cannibalising Windows using something people do not even want, then counting that cannibal, Vista 10)

THE REASON why Microsoft is not being covered here as much as before is that it's not as relevant. Right now even Microsoft's and Bill Gates' friends at Gartner admit that Windows Phone market share is approaching 0%. Rumours we have been hearing suggest that Windows Phone will be called off and die not too long from now. Even Microsoft's biggest fans (some of whom pretend to be journalists) have dumped Windows Phone (usually in favour of Android). We didn't write about it when it happened because we worry more about what Microsoft intends to do with its patents (recall IBM) as its business is reduced to rubble.



"Rumours we have been hearing suggest that Windows Phone will be called off and die not too long from now."For those who have not seen or heard the news, "Windows Phone market share falls below one percent", according to a Microsoft-connected firm. As iophk put it: "Market share or sales? The numbers might be lower still." They probably are. To quote CBS: "Microsoft's Windows Phone may not be long for this world. Although the first quarter of 2016 saw a 3.9 percent increase in global smartphone sales year-on-year, Windows Phone saw a nearly 2 percent drop in sales. According to the latest Gartner report, Windows Phone sales went from 2.5 percent and 8.27 million units in Q1 2015 to 0.7 percent and 2.4 million units in Q1 2016."

Glyn Moody cites this as proof that Microsoft won't come back to greatness (in the market share sense) any time soon, or ever. Here is another article about it, this one titled "Windows Phone market share sinks below 1 percent" (also from a Gates-connected source). There are even more pessimistic reports in other places. FOSS proponent Sam Varghese notes that "Android sales were the highest (84.1%)." We have intentionally chosen Microsoft-friendly sources so as to show just how serious the problem is. Even the Microsoft choir cannot spin its way out of it.

"Microsoft's Vista 10 installs itself without consent, still."On the desktop, Microsoft is forcing people to use what Microsoft tells them to have, basically by hijacking people's PCs. As the Bill Gates-funded The Guardian has just put it, "Microsoft has ruined my day, and possibly my life" (article by Michele Hanson). the summary says: "An unwanted software update has moved my files, broken my printer and stopped the sound on iPlayer" (which was originally notoriously Microsoft-friendly, as we noted over the years).

"Microsoft is in shambles."As a matter of preference and priority, we don't write much about Vista 10 anymore, but we keep hearing new stories about forced 'upgrades'. For instance, "yesterday," said one person, "Microsoft updated to windows 10 without my consent…" [1, 2]. Microsoft's Vista 10 installs itself without consent, still. The solution? Goodbye Windows, hello GNU/Linux. Much to our disgust, Microsoft continues to exploit the "Linux" brand in its miserable effort to whitewash Vista 10, based on what Microsoft published yesterday. Is this whole provocative charade not over yet? Microsoft does not love Linux, it just realises that now, as Chromebooks outsell Apple-branded PCs, GNU/Linux is the growing/huge force not only in mobile (tablet/phones) but also on the desktop (or laptop rather). Microsoft does not love Linux and it does not love FOSS either. Yesterday, for instance, we learned of yet another case of Microsoft censorship [1] because someone dared to suggest making Visual Basic FOSS upon its 25th anniversary [2].

Microsoft is in shambles. To use Elop's words (from that infamous memo), Microsoft's operating systems are now "burning platforms".

Related/contextual items from the news:



  1. Visual Basic Reaches 25th Birthday - Microsoft Censors Campaign To Open Source VB6


  2. Microsoft marks Visual Basic’s 25th birthday, kicks off marathon celebration


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