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And what exactly is taking Windows place on PCs? Microsoft’s market share hasn’t budged in decades.

Nasrudith 3y ago
I'm not a part of this space personally so I can't say for certain, but one answer could be the not-PCs and cloud. Some people find a tablet with a keyboard perfectly adequate for their all-office needs. Even if the "sys-admins" still need PCs that is still a very substantial conversion of the market share away from PCs. If you reflexively scream at the notion of how horrible that would be for your working process, I do not blame you but note it could work for some.
- scarface74 3y ago
  Do you really need to be part of “this space” to know that Microsoft has a 90% share in PCs and most of corporate America and even personal computers are running Windows? Even the people who like tablets are still buying Surface laptops - running Windows. They aren’t buying iPads and definitely not Android tablets. Even a lot of iPad aficionados are moving back to Macs now that they have a lot of the advantages of iPads - slim, lightweight and ridiculously long battery life.
  - 0zemp2c 3y ago
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    - dang 3y ago
      You can't post like this to HN, regardless of how wrong another post is or you feel it is. As I just mentioned at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35965090 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35965090, if you keep this up, we're going to have to ban you. Could you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules?
larkost 3y ago
I don't think this is correct. It is a little hard to tease out perfectly (e.g.: school computers having gone to chrome books in a big way might not be the statistic you want), but globally Windows marketshare has gone from 90% a decade ago to ~%75 now: https://www.statista.com/statistics/218089/global-market-share-of-windows-7/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/218089/global-market-sha... About half of that is to MacOS, but linux and ChromeOS have also made gains.
0zemp2c 3y ago
it has indeed "budged" from 92% to 56%

I'm not a part of this space personally so I can't say for certain, but one answer could be the not-PCs and cloud. Some people find a tablet with a keyboard perfectly adequate for their all-office needs. Even if the "sys-admins" still need PCs that is still a very substantial conversion of the market share away from PCs. If you reflexively scream at the notion of how horrible that would be for your working process, I do not blame you but note it could work for some.

scarface74 3y ago
Do you really need to be part of “this space” to know that Microsoft has a 90% share in PCs and most of corporate America and even personal computers are running Windows? Even the people who like tablets are still buying Surface laptops - running Windows. They aren’t buying iPads and definitely not Android tablets. Even a lot of iPad aficionados are moving back to Macs now that they have a lot of the advantages of iPads - slim, lightweight and ridiculously long battery life.
- 0zemp2c 3y ago
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  - dang 3y ago
    You can't post like this to HN, regardless of how wrong another post is or you feel it is. As I just mentioned at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35965090 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35965090, if you keep this up, we're going to have to ban you. Could you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules?

larkost 3y ago

I don't think this is correct. It is a little hard to tease out perfectly (e.g.: school computers having gone to chrome books in a big way might not be the statistic you want), but globally Windows marketshare has gone from 90% a decade ago to ~%75 now: https://www.statista.com/statistics/218089/global-market-share-of-windows-7/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/218089/global-market-sha... About half of that is to MacOS, but linux and ChromeOS have also made gains.

0zemp2c 3y ago

it has indeed "budged" from 92% to 56%