[blueflow]

They lost every OS market except for the Desktop. Where it is at 75% to 80%, trending downwards. Give it another decade.

[osigurdson]

Is the market share largely being taken by macOS or something else? Chromebooks perhaps?

[mschuster91]

In the corporate world, there seems to be a shift towards thin clients running whatever OS works best (homegrown Linux, ChromeOS, macOS) and beefy Citrix servers, as well as another shift to SaaS/on-prem/on-own-cloud web applications.

Guess we're in a revival of the 70s/80s mainframes with dumb terminals again.

[bombcar]

macOS is the important one - if Microsoft support for office on Mac wasn’t as good as it is, they could be in existential danger.

Already Google Apps has made a strong play, and Microsoft is doing quite a good job defending. Teams is only a part of it.

And there’s also mobile, which they lost entirely. That could be a risk, too, and they know it.

[osigurdson]

I don’t know. I bought office for my Mac 4 years ago and used it maybe twice. Google docs might not be quite as good but good enough for most things. I also hate looking at the ribbon (but that is just personal preference).

[bombcar]

Yeah, for home/personal use they're all the same, and many people don't own anything Microsoft in that arena - Google docs from a iPhone/Mac/Chromebook are often "good enough".

Businesses they still have a stranglehold, but even there I've noticed it loosening.