Some baselines on Microsoft

In a developer forum today I came across a Netcraft statistic that shows how meaningless Mirosoft has become with its IIS server, .aspx and .NET webservices.¹

The largest loss in sites for a major vendor this month comes from Microsoft, which is down 2,866,173 sites (-9.59%) and 74,094 domains (-0.98%).

Since the peak in 2017/2018 with over 50% share of web servers, the statistics show only one direction. All this in the face of steadily growing server sales² and more VMs or containers per unit.

Today, Microsoft is languishing somewhere below 5% in almost all metrics. Only in mail server usage it holds up at 13% with its outlook.com servers and more or less forced hybrid Exchange usage.³

If these baselines are not enough and you still think Microsoft is the non plus ultra, here are a few more data points:

1. Merely 1.2% of all internet hosts come from the Azure.⁴
2. Half of the world’s internet traffic comes from mobile devices⁵, where Microsoft has no relevance.⁶
3. Only 27% of all devices on the internet are powered by Microsoft Windows, and the trend is downward.⁷

Especially when looking at the long term, it becomes clear how Microsoft has literally crashed in almost all metrics from a high level in the past 5-10 years.

Anyone making long-term technology decisions for their business today would be well advised not to gamble on Microsoft.

With a steadily rising share price⁸ and a steadily shrinking market share, it doesn’t take a degree in economics to predict that a drastic caesura is imminent.

With this in mind,
Tomas Jakobs