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All of the gamers use windows. All of the office workers use windows. All of the medical equipment that need a PC, run on windows. In manufacturing all the pcs run windows.

So 72% is probably an underestimation.

The only market share that Microsoft lost in the last decade was in the school market (by Chromebooks) and the POS (by tablets)

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> All of the office workers use windows

If you define "office workers" as people who use Windows then sure. Even if we don't count tech quite a few people still use Macs (of course depends on country area but Apple seems to have very high market share amongst architects (of course not engineers but I think Linux is overrepresented there), designers etc. where I am).

as an office worker... i use linux, a bunch in my team use apple's OS. i'd say it's only about half of my team that still uses windows, trending downwards. but in general i'd probably agree that more than 72% of office workers use windows, just definitely not all of them and i'd expect it to keep trending downwards if m$ doesn't change course.

Your employer must have the nicest IT on this planet.

Bringing a different OS to a company is almost impossible.

All the cool companies I've worked for have had options. The coolest ones even allow you to use linux.

Willing to name some? The only big co I've worked at that wasn't a startup was Red Hat, which made linux a first-class option, but I don't fully count them :-D

Google lets its devs use their in-house Linux distro.

Even places like CERN used to have an IT policy that you're on your own if not using Windows or Mac.

Even when they co-designed Scientific Linux alongside Fermilab, and all the servers were on Linux, moving away from Solaris.

Speaking as one of the beta testers, back in 2004.

> All of the gamers use windows

Nope

Care to elaborate? Steam for example reports > 96% windows usage.

What?

Point of sale.

It’s worth noting that I think Microsoft lost a significant share of the personal use market, not just to Linux or Mac, but to the apple ecosystem and mobile/tablet computing as a whole.

Agreed, after all the biggest OS today by a big margin is Android. Mobile is the new PC.

> but to the apple ecosystem and mobile/tablet computing as a whole.

For home users I totally see this in my life. I know of several households which end up only having a couple of iPads when several years ago they would have had a desktop or laptop.

No, I was just saying what he said was ridiculous.

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