Microsoft says it still has 1.4 billion monthly active users (Updated)
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Our mobile-first world is slowly killing the ubiquitous operating system.

Microsoft EVP Yusuf Mehdi said in a blog post last week that Windows powers over a billion active devices globally. This might sound like a healthy number, but according to ZDNET, the Microsoft annual report for 2022 said that more than 1.4 billion devices were running Windows 10 or 11. Given that these documents contain material information and have allegedly been pored over by the tech giant’s lawyers, we can safely assume that Windows’ user base has been quietly shrinking in the past three years, shedding around 400 million users.

  • Joe Dyrt@lemmy.caEnglish
    53·
    4 hours ago

    I began using Windows in 1992. I switched to MacOS this year and I’m never going back.

    • Lulzagna@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      3 hours ago

      As someone who has had to use Windows, OSX and Linux as a daily driver at different points, OSX was by far the most challenging to work with. Every few months something broke. Fully on Linux now.

      • howlingecko@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        41 minutes ago

        As someone who has used Windows, OSX, and Linux as a daily driver at different points, Windows was by far the most challenging to work with. Every week there was some problem.

        In recent years, my company provided Dell with 32GB of memory running Windows would blue screen practically weekly. Most of the time it struggled to run more than one instance of an IDE. Windows finally crashed to the point that the only option was restore the OS.

        I requested a different machine and have been running macOS with less memory. Have actually been able to run more IDE instances than the Windows machine would run. No crashes.

        Completely Unix based OSes now. Linux servers. Linux desktops. Mac laptops.