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Re:Windows 11’s taskbar is finally getting labels and never ... by kevviiinn on Monday April 24, 2023 @01:32PM (#35690673)
And how ubiquitous is MacOS compared to Windows? It isn't even close
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Re:Windows 11’s taskbar is finally getting labels and never ... by kalleboo on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @12:45AM (#35696586)
Over the past decade, the U.S. MacOS market share has doubled from 15% to 30%, whereas Windows has dropped from 80% to 60% (according to statcounter)
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Re:Windows 11’s taskbar is finally getting labels and never ... by kevviiinn on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @10:02AM (#35700625)
I don't know where you got your numbers from but they don't appear to be correct. According to this, MacOS is around 16% while Windows is somewhere around 70%

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide

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Re:Windows 11’s taskbar is finally getting labels and never ... by cubefox on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @12:38PM (#35702916)
Yeah, the worldwide data seems more relevant. Still, if you look at it, apparently Windows has lost more than 5 percentage points just in the last three months. It seems to be a historical low. I don't know what triggered this, but at least in the US, Windows seems to be on its way out. Though it could have also to do with Apple's very efficient M CPUs, which aren't available for Windows, not just with MacOS itself.
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Re:Windows 11’s taskbar is finally getting labels and never ... by kevviiinn on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @12:54PM (#35703220)
It's the year of the Linux desktop?
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