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Microsoft EVP Yusuf Mehdi said in a blog post last week that Windows powers over a billion active devices globally. This might sound like a healthy number, but according to ZDNET, the Microsoft annual report for 2022 said that more than 1.4 billion devices were running Windows 10 or 11. Given that these documents contain material information and have allegedly been pored over by the tech giant’s lawyers, we can safely assume that Windows’ user base has been quietly shrinking in the past three years, shedding around 400 million users.

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[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 48 points 1 day ago (1 children)

good. fuck. microsoft.

they had the choice of not being fucking awful and they had no reason to. im glad its crumbling for them even if wayyy too late.

[–] racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They would have way higher ratio of supporters if they stayed at XP or 7, and just keep security patching it but no, they deliberately sabotaged their star product with Vista, 8, 10, and 11. They deserved it.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

id appreciate it if they didnt get it chock full of fucking ads. big part of why i left it.

its actually a good system underneath the crud, and microsoft loves to insist on the crud.