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B.R.I.C.S. Leaving Microsoft Behind

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 11, 2023

LAST month we noted that in China, which has conflicts and disputes with the West, the market share of Windows is estimated to have fallen to 75%. This month it's 72% and the US government panics, trying to stop China from adopting RISC-V:

RISC-V technology emerges as battleground in US-China tech war

x86 is at risk (or RISC) here as well. Many back doors "baked" into such chips can be discarded... or replaced by China's.

This seems like a trend in B.R.I.C.S. (in South Africa Android dominates with Windows down to 12%; GNU/Linux is growing fast) so we can expect a lot more Microsoft layoffs very soon. Microsoft products will become dying breeds.

Attempts to "swallow" the competition by buying GitHub did not pay off, they just cost a lot of money and this year we see many large waves of GitHub layoffs, even office shutdowns (permanent). This new report says that "Microsoft reportedly runs GitHub's AI Copilot at a loss [...] Analysis Microsoft is reportedly losing up to $80 a month per user on its GitHub Copilot services." That's not even counting legal bills. █