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Microsoft Will Need an "Hey Hi" (AI) Miracle in Holland

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 23, 2024

Two months ago: Vista 11 is Rotting in The Netherlands | Netherlands: GNU/Linux and Chromebooks at About 5% - Highest in a Year

Last month: statCounter: Dutch GNU/Linux Usage Surged 1% in Summer

OpenAI traffic is down almost 80% (adding an "o", not a "0", after GPT4 won't fix anything; it's not GPT40) and Microsoft has again repositioned itself to hide the massive losses. Looking at Dutch trends for search engines, Bing has actually lost market share since all the LLM hype. It's the same in many other countries around the world.

The Netherlands in isolation:

Search Engine Market Share Netherlands

Microsoft already owes more money than it has and bailouts are being withdrawn. Microsoft's shares have fallen over 3% in the past 1.5 days. █