Windows hit its lowest market share in decades, Microsoft lost $400 billion in a week, and now their own president is admitting they need to fix the OS. SteamOS and Linux aren’t waiting around.

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    2 days ago

    Their stock seems to be doing a bit of a freefall lately: image

    Its still pretty high compared to just 5 years ago. But investors look to leverage future positions. So its interesting its going down at such a quick rate.

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      This isn’t because windows sucks, this is all the recoil from AI. MS invested over $13b in openai and holds about a quarter of the company.

      Windows doesn’t make enough money for Microsoft to seriously care about it, their baby now is Azure.

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                i could swear i remember reading their cloud was linux under the hood. Research time i suppose

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                  12 hours ago

                  Very well might be, but the end product is nothing like RHEL. I know they host more Linux than Windows on Azure.

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      I think a lot of EFT type investments are going to be divesting from AI-Bubble stocks over the next while.