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From: Paul in Houston TX <Paul@Houston.Texas>
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Subject: Re: Falling Windows Market Share
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2025 19:08:08 -0500
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> Ed Bott
> <https://www.zdnet.com/article/400-million-windows-pcs-vanished-in-3-years-where-did-they-all-go/>
> has noticed an interesting signal in among all the noise of
> Microsoft’s PR boasts: the installed base of Microsoft Windows has
> been shrinking, and quite substantially.
> 
> As recently as 3 years ago, Microsoft trumpeted an installed base of
> 1.4 billion Windows PCs; but the best it can say today is “over a
> billion”.
> 
> So somewhere around 300 million machines have disappeared from that
> count in that period. Were they all retired? Or were a few of them
> switched to some other OS?

None of the people that I know _personally_ have computers any more.
They all have smart phones.  They are all myopic, never needing to look 
more than 3 feet / 1 meter in any direction.