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On 10/3/2024 7:06 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Oct 2024 08:39:05 -0400, DFS wrote:
> 
>> Face facts: the whole planet has 30 years of MS Office knowledge and
>> experience ...
> 
> No it hasn’t. The entire installed base of Microsoft Windows (the only
> significant market for Office) has never exceeded about 1.2 billion. 


Another bogus stat.

Office alone has an estimated 1.2B to 1.6B users right now.


> And the world population is currently about 6× that.

babble babble... Total population is irrelevant.  What's the population 
of students and business users between 16 and 65?  That's who used and 
is still using MS Office for the past 3 decades.


> Think about it: Microsoft’s market has remained stagnant over about the
> last decade, 

The info is out there, and simple Google queries will reveal it.

1) "The number of Teams users jumped from 20 million in 2019 to 115 
million in 2020."


2)
April 2022: 345M paid seats of Office 365
April 2023: 382M paid seats of Office 365


3)
-------------------------------
MS Revenue           Employees
FY      $B    Chg     K   Chg
-------------------------------
2021  168.1   18%    181   11%
2022  198.3   18%    221   22%
2023  211.9    7%    221    0%
-------------------------------



That's a lot of 'stagnation' from 2022 to 2023.


I note the prescience of GuhNoo/Linux idiots is a wonder to behold.


> while the world has continued to add about that many people
> again to its entire population. 

Can I get a "Microsoft is dying!"?


> That’s how irrelevant Microsoft is to the needs of most of the world.

You can post all the ignorance and stupidity you want about MS being 
irrelevant to most of the world, but you'll always be wrong, ie:

"Microsoft: The Enduring Tech Superstar"
https://www.investing.com/academy/statistics/microsoft-facts/


> And that’s why Microsoft is increasingly resorting to rentware/adware
> tactics to try to grow its revenues. And prop up its share price.

Good.  They're a public corporation.  That's what they should do.

You 'advocates' can suffer with your GuhNoo crapware and LibreOffice all 
your lives.  96% of the world refuses to debase themselves.