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Something weird happens with Windows. In 2022 Microsoft He presumed to have 1,400 of monthly active devices with Windows. A few days ago the figure danced, and in an official post There was talk Initially not 1,400, but 1,000 million monthly active devices with Windows. What happens?
400 million less? If we trust the original version From the Microsoft post, the company would have lost no less than 400 million active devices in these three years, a real collapse of difficult explanation.
PC sales are still notable. According to IDC In 2024, 262.7 million pcs were distributed, for 260.2 million of 2023. In 2022 – even with a pandemic effect – yes, yes, yes They were distributed 301.5 million PCs and laptops. The feeling may no longer be sold PCs, but the consultants make it clear that they are sold. Something less, safe, but of course no 400 million less, that would help explain Microsoft’s data.
And people are not going to Mac. We have no data sold by Apple MACs, but Yes we know that since 2022 the income of that division has dropped from 10,000 million dollars per quarter to about 8,000 million. If those 400 million inactive Windows devices had been motivated by the change to Mac, that would also have had a clear positive impact on Apple accounts. It has not been so.
Two versions for the same story. The original article spoke of 1,000 million active Windows devices. The updated, of 1.4 billion. Queer.
Where I said … The funny thing is that after the publication of that unique fall by ZDNET Something happened. Microsoft edited The original article —Aspononable at Archive.org— and In the updated version changed the 1,000 million for 1.4 billion. That is, in the last three years there had been no changes in the number of monthly active devices with Windows. But that is also strange, especially after the slight drop in PCs sales or the impact of the MAC. The company, by the way, indicated in April 2021 that there were 1.3 billion active Windows devices monthly. Did Microsoft 100 million grow in one year, and then there has been no movement in the next three? In the updated version Microsoft does indicate that that number was modified, but not why. Strange.
A hypothesis. There is a certain thing that may have affected the number of active Windows devices: the fact that people simply do not use their PCs and laptops, or do not use them so much. The smartphone and tablet can be enough for many users, and that would make the figure again probably different. However, it still seems too much that in three years 400 million people have stopped using their PC regularly. But it is not normal for the updated figure (1.4 billion) to be the same as three years and has not changed so long.
Source: Statcounter Globalstats.
But Windows 10 ends. The period of Official Windows 10 support It ends next October, and that could have caused some impact among users, both final and business. The data provided by Statcounter Globalstats show that of course since 2022 there has been a significant change in the Windows 10 market share – which has gone from 81% to 48% – and in Windows 11 – from 8% to 48% -. Both systems are distributed right now in the same proportion the Windows device market, but that graph does not give all the information. It only tells us that there are much less Windows 10 and many more Windows 11, but we don’t know how many with certainty. Again, we have to trust what Microsoft says.
Difficult to know what to believe. In Xataka we have contacted Microsoft to try to clarify the situation, but there is no clear explanation or in one case – which have lost 400 million “users” – or in the other – which everything remains the same as three years ago.
And Windows 12, what? Rumors about a potential new iteration of the operating system have been running for some time. The hypothetical Windows 12 It seemed to make all the meaning of the world: it would be the first Windows of the AI era and could take advantage of a much stronger co -ilot integration, for example. However, that launch has not only occurred, but Microsoft has already confirmed that it is preparing the next great Windows 11 update, The call Windows 11 25h2. And meanwhile, the mystery persists.
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