Last week, Microsoft published a blog post that mentioned Windows was now in use on just over 1 billion devices worldwide. That number alone is impressive, but when you consider the fact that Microsoft had previously stated Windows was in use on over 1.4 billion devices, it led some to believe that Microsoft was implying it had actually lost market share in the last three years since Windows 11 entered the market.
ZDNet was first to question such possibility, claiming as many as 400 million PCs were no longer in use running Windows, which would be a huge dent in the Windows ecosystem. I suggested it could be a rounding error, or a different counting metric that Microsoft had chosen to use for that blog post. Either way, it didn't look good and was a possible sign that Windows had indeed lost some users in the last few years.
