Windows Market Share Drops, Microsoft Faces Crisis 📉

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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00:00 Everyone Turned On Windows
00:51 $400 Billion Gone
02:21 "We Need To Improve"
05:10 Death By A Thousand Cuts
07:57 The Competition Isn't Waiting
11:52 What This Forces Microsoft To Do

Sources:
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