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All of the gamers use windows. All of the office workers use windows. All of the medical equipment that need a PC, run on windows. In manufacturing all the pcs

All of the gamers use windows. All of the office workers use windows. All of the medical equipment that need a PC, run on windows. In manufacturing all the pcs run windows. So 72% is probably an underestimation. The only market share that Microsoft lost in the last decade was in the school market (by Chromebooks) and the POS (by tablets)

ladyanita22 3y ago
What?
- Gollapalli 3y ago
  Point of sale. It’s worth noting that I think Microsoft lost a significant share of the personal use market, not just to Linux or Mac, but to the apple ecosystem and mobile/tablet computing as a whole.
  - whatever1 3y ago
    Agreed, after all the biggest OS today by a big margin is Android. Mobile is the new PC.
  - vel0city 3y ago
    > but to the apple ecosystem and mobile/tablet computing as a whole. For home users I totally see this in my life. I know of several households which end up only having a couple of iPads when several years ago they would have had a desktop or laptop.
  - ladyanita22 3y ago
    No, I was just saying what he said was ridiculous.
q0uaur 3y ago
as an office worker... i use linux, a bunch in my team use apple's OS. i'd say it's only about half of my team that still uses windows, trending downwards. but in general i'd probably agree that more than 72% of office workers use windows, just definitely not all of them and i'd expect it to keep trending downwards if m$ doesn't change course.
- whatever1 3y ago
  Your employer must have the nicest IT on this planet. Bringing a different OS to a company is almost impossible.
  - datadrivenangel 3y ago
    All the cool companies I've worked for have had options. The coolest ones even allow you to use linux.
    - freedomben 3y ago
      Willing to name some? The only big co I've worked at that wasn't a startup was Red Hat, which made linux a first-class option, but I don't fully count them :-D
      - hollerith 3y ago
        Google lets its devs use their in-house Linux distro.
- pjmlp 3y ago
  Even places like CERN used to have an IT policy that you're on your own if not using Windows or Mac. Even when they co-designed Scientific Linux alongside Fermilab, and all the servers were on Linux, moving away from Solaris. Speaking as one of the beta testers, back in 2004.
qwytw 3y ago
> All of the office workers use windows If you define "office workers" as people who use Windows then sure. Even if we don't count tech quite a few people still use Macs (of course depends on country area but Apple seems to have very high market share amongst architects (of course not engineers but I think Linux is overrepresented there), designers etc. where I am).
bitcharmer 3y ago
> All of the gamers use windows Nope
- whatever1 3y ago
  Care to elaborate? Steam for example reports > 96% windows usage.

ladyanita22 3y ago

What?

Gollapalli 3y ago
Point of sale. It’s worth noting that I think Microsoft lost a significant share of the personal use market, not just to Linux or Mac, but to the apple ecosystem and mobile/tablet computing as a whole.
- whatever1 3y ago
  Agreed, after all the biggest OS today by a big margin is Android. Mobile is the new PC.
- vel0city 3y ago
  > but to the apple ecosystem and mobile/tablet computing as a whole. For home users I totally see this in my life. I know of several households which end up only having a couple of iPads when several years ago they would have had a desktop or laptop.
- ladyanita22 3y ago
  No, I was just saying what he said was ridiculous.

q0uaur 3y ago

as an office worker... i use linux, a bunch in my team use apple's OS. i'd say it's only about half of my team that still uses windows, trending downwards. but in general i'd probably agree that more than 72% of office workers use windows, just definitely not all of them and i'd expect it to keep trending downwards if m$ doesn't change course.

whatever1 3y ago
Your employer must have the nicest IT on this planet. Bringing a different OS to a company is almost impossible.
- datadrivenangel 3y ago
  All the cool companies I've worked for have had options. The coolest ones even allow you to use linux.
  - freedomben 3y ago
    Willing to name some? The only big co I've worked at that wasn't a startup was Red Hat, which made linux a first-class option, but I don't fully count them :-D
    - hollerith 3y ago
      Google lets its devs use their in-house Linux distro.
pjmlp 3y ago
Even places like CERN used to have an IT policy that you're on your own if not using Windows or Mac. Even when they co-designed Scientific Linux alongside Fermilab, and all the servers were on Linux, moving away from Solaris. Speaking as one of the beta testers, back in 2004.

qwytw 3y ago

> All of the office workers use windows If you define "office workers" as people who use Windows then sure. Even if we don't count tech quite a few people still use Macs (of course depends on country area but Apple seems to have very high market share amongst architects (of course not engineers but I think Linux is overrepresented there), designers etc. where I am).

bitcharmer 3y ago

> All of the gamers use windows Nope

whatever1 3y ago
Care to elaborate? Steam for example reports > 96% windows usage.