Comment by jsgo
8 years ago
> Losing as the most popular OS has made Microsoft start doing some of the right things.
While Microsoft has started doing good things which I can agree on, when did they lose OS market share to the point of not being number one? If we're talking about Apple hardware outselling any one vendor, that's true, but there's volume. Also, one of the first things I did after getting my MacBook Pro (and others I know who don't want to leverage VMs/Parallels. I like Windows and OSX being separate from a context point of view) was dual boot Windows.
Likely a reference to this view of the OS war: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_syste...
Android is first by a large margin. iOS almost outnumbers Windows as well.
Microsoft post iPhone needs to prove that it's worth using a desktop at all, not that they deserve to have the highest share of desktop users. Stopping the bleeding inflicted by Macs, which sync so well with iOS, is part of that.
Desktops and laptops have lost much ground to phones and tablets. There was a time where comparing a desktop to a phone was silly, that time has passed.
The number of people using Windows to do their "computer things" has gone down dramatically. Even if they have a Windows computer, much of the time spent doing computer things has moved to Android and iOS.