“Linux infestations are being uncovered in many of our large accounts as part of the escalation engagements.”

--Microsoft Confidential

Summary: This month's Web-derived numbers show that amid unprecedented inflation Turks move to GNU/Linux (85,279,553 are estimated to live in Turkey, more than any European nation; Turkey is also bigger than any European nation). Market share as measured by statCounter rose from 6.5% last month to 7% this month. Meanwhile in India (world's biggest population) Windows falls to 14% while Android soars to 77%^* (on desktops/laptops GNU/Linux exceeds 14%, as we noted before)

____ ^* We ought to clarify that the totals are for all clients, both mobile and normal laptop/desktop. Back in the days Christian Einfeldt made an observation about monopoly rents. There's no way that Microsoft can make money from rents at less than 85% and the rents are where nearly all of its Windows-related income used to come from.

So it's not just a matter of gloating over Microsoft's decline and cheering for the rise of Android/Linux and GNU/Linux. Bailouts and government handouts are keeping Microsoft afloat, aside from what it can't fill in from buying and selling its own stock. The productivity suite format monopoly still stands, but as they now give away MSO and O365 there's no money from that. With Windows at low double-digit market shares, there's no monopoly rents holding them afloat either.