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by notimetorelax 563 days ago
I looked at the graphs at Statista. I don’t think it’s so clear cut. Mobile OSs have pushed it down, but it seem to dominate PC market. Do you have a graph that shows its decline on computers, not mobile phones? Or in absolute unit counts?
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lysace 563 days ago
https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide...

There's a clear but slow trend on desktop.

Jan 2009: 95.4% Windows

Jan 2016: 85.2% Windows

Jan 2024: 73.0% Windows

In e.g. US it's going down faster, desktop market share now at 62%:

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/united-st...

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flir 563 days ago
I think that might be a bit of an unfair caveat. People do real work on mobile OSes. They shop and communicate on mobile OSes, and occasionally organise revolutions.

(Although I'm not sure why "Netraft confirms, Windows is dying" is a useful comment here anyway. Windows is a behemoth.)

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