● 08.07.21

●● This Chart Explains or Helps Explain Why Microsoft Invoked Version Inflation (+1) for Vista 10 and Then Bombarded the Media With Paid-for Churnalism

Posted in GNU/Linux, Microsoft, Windows at 12:01 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

There’s no potent strategy for restoring the monopoly on desktops/laptops

On desktops/laptops, put aside mobile devices and servers, Windows is perpetually declining (original dataset as ODF file)

Median of Windows market share (%) on desktops/laptops, over time (year-month)

Summary: Across all form factors, Windows may already have less than 30% of the overall share, but even on desktops/laptops in isolation Microsoft has quite a crisis and no signs of turnaround/recovery

TAKING into account some figures with caveats, ‘classic’ GNU/Linux is already on about 3% of desktops/laptops, not even counting Chrome OS and other forms which count differently (or don’t get counted at all, e.g. “Unknown” at over 8% of the whole), it’s hardly surprising that Microsoft is attempting new (but still-failing) attacks on GNU/Linux with strategies akin to E.E.E. Too many ridiculous ‘news’ sites are presenting Vista 11 like it’s something that 1) already exists, is final etc. 2) not just a marketing slant/media propaganda campaign to rebrand Vista 10. It’s Vista all over again. We’ve seen it before!

↺ some figures with caveats

Chrome OS

but still-failing

Vista all over again

Those shameless puff pieces (a Vista 11 PR onslaught, or media with vapourware placements 24/7 for 2-3 weeks) came at a convenient time for Microsoft because there were many simultaneous scandals/blunders to distract from.

vapourware placements 24/7 for 2-3 weeks

simultaneous scandals/blunders to distract from

“The graphs above (with source data) tell a story.”There are old sayings along the lines of, what hurts them most they will try to hide or distract from. Vista 11, we believe, is generally seen as a much-needed distraction from the disaster Windows has had since Vista. Internally? An empty promise for morale boost. The graphs above (with source data) tell a story. █

“If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.”

–Bill Gates, Microsoft

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