Waffelson@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.ml · 1 day agoWhat will MS do when Linux becomes a serious threat to their monopoly ?message-squaremessage-square103fedilinkarrow-up1106file-text
arrow-up1106message-squareWhat will MS do when Linux becomes a serious threat to their monopoly ?Waffelson@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.ml · 1 day agomessage-square103fedilinkfile-text
Will they lobby for laws that prohibit Linux or make it difficult to install? What actions might they take in the future?
minus-squareschnurrito@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 hours agoMS already doesn’t have a monopoly in any meaningful sense anymore. https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share#monthly-200901-202507 - in early 2009, almost 95% of web usage was from Windows, by now it is at around 28%, no longer even the most popular OS, which is now Android around 42% https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide/#monthly-200901-202507 - even looking only at the desktop and ignoring the shift to mobile devices, Windows fell from ~95% to ~72% during the same time period, mostly losing to macOS but more recently also Linux Windows isn’t the main way Microsoft makes money anymore anyway…
MS already doesn’t have a monopoly in any meaningful sense anymore.
Windows isn’t the main way Microsoft makes money anymore anyway…