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Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining (www.neowin.net)
submitted 6 months ago by lautan@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Statcounter reports that Windows 11 continues to lose its market share for the second month in a row. Windows 10, meanwhile, is gaining more users and is now back above the 70% mark.

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[–] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

TBH part of the problem is that Microsoft's revenue is only 12% from Windows, and I imagine its profit is lower because it involves a lot of maintaining like antivirus and hardware compatibility than some of their other products.

Basically, they can afford to fuck around with Windows OS and still expect to beat quarterly projections (which they did, again.)

[–] Soggytoast@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Nice picture. Really wild to think that search advertisements (only Bing?) is only 2% under Xbox/gaming related, considering they own so many studios now. Also surprising that the gaming segment is so small

[–] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

You gotta think that with all of the world's resource procurement, logistics, manufacturing, distribution, sales, financing, and metrics for every employee and wages, and every outcome compared to every projection, the use of computers is so much bigger than a couple of rich countries with a limited demographic playing video games. If anything, 8% is kind of impressive.