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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.comp.os.windows-11
Subject: Re: Falling Windows Market Share
Date: 25 Jun 2025 01:54:40 GMT
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On Wed, 25 Jun 2025 01:01:13 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Jun 2025 19:57:40 -0400, Paul wrote:
> 
>> Microsoft still has a pile of cash, and there's no chance of it just
>> disappearing ...
> 
> Everything will be fine until the day you wake up and realize it isn’t.
> 
> Now we see the reason for this Windows/Xbox mashup idea that they’re
> promoting: by joining two different declining markets together into a
> single product, they hope to prop up both businesses.
> 
> The trouble with that is: combining different product lines only makes
> sense if you get some synergy out of it. In this case, we just have two
> mediocre product components dragging each other down.

Tohse recent layoffs muddy the water too. It was never something I planned 
on but if I were a young developer I don't think I'd spend too much time 
on MAUI. UWP was a flop and sort of slithered into MAUI, with reduced 
expectations.