Ok, you showed the desktop percentages ... now where are the data center / server percentages?
Nadella is an idiot and wont be there very long.
Windows is dominant because it comes pre-installed on nearly every PC on earth.
Linux doesn’t have that advantage.
Linux will have one more user later today; I’m converting a former XP box to Ubuntu.
I love PowerPoint presentations. Brilliant colors, nice pie charts, a little musical intro and closing, s/fx for bullet points and they remind me of my first version of Microsoft Office. Oh how I loved forking over the moola for THAT. So nostalgic... Also, PowerPoints make me drowsy.
I installed my firs Linux distro ten years ago (Red Hat) and have had a computer or two running it since. It is pretty good now, but still not ready for prime time with the normal crowd that can’t copy a file. It is also not ready for business desktops because it doesn’t run the software they want (without creating a technical situation they can’t or won’t navigate). The apps that it must run are Excel, Access, Word, Outlook, and Exchange (latest edition). Let’s not forget Quickbooks either. It also has to work with all of their existing hardware. For home users it must run Word and PC Games.
As it stands right now, Mac has the graphics/video and hipster market and PC owns business, gaming and most of the home desktop market.
I have to have Linux so I can safely click on email that my uncle Bob sends me and I’m addicted to Gnome Mahjong.
Same goes for "renting" instead of owning software. There are not enough "money-no-object" businesses in the country to make that work.
Hmmm.
Perhaps MS is planning to hijack or destroy open source competition of all kinds? I simply do not trust them.