they use Windows because it's ostensibly cheap and there's momentum. I don't think any modern tech company is majority Windows.

One of my previous companies gave top of the line workstations with 4k touchscreens and i9s to literally everyone junior and below a particular grade. I'm quite sure they could've saved 1000s of dollars per laptop by going with a reasonable MacBook.

(Ironically, windows 11 + corporate bloatware made the laptops super laggy. Go figure.)

It surely is outside US, and countries with similar income level.

https://www.accio.com/business/operating-system-market-share...

That's overall market share. Agree Windows use is high but in general the more tech-forward the company is the less Windows there is at it.

So only 13% of the world desktop users might be employeed at a tech-forward company.

Might, because the number is even less, when we differenciate between companies and home use.

> more tech-forward

That may be surprising for people here, but technology is not synonymous with software.

>but in general the more tech-forward the company is the less Windows there is at it. reply

Only if you count food delivery apps, crypto Ponzi scheme unicorns, Ad-services and SaaS start-ups as "tech-forward" exclusively, because you're omitting a lot of other tech companies your daily life in the civilized world depends on, which operate mainly on Windows, like where I work now.

Is designing and building semiconductors not "technology"? Or MRI machines? Or jets? Or car engines?

The whole world does not consist of the tech industry.