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[–] manitcor@lemmy.intai.tech 309 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Look at the unknown line, looks like the tool used to create this graph mistook one of the windows versions for an "unknown". Likely the result of a cumulative update.

Based on the graph i expect they process data monthly, fixed the issue for june but have not gone back and fixed the data points for apr and may.

[–] gusVLZ@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago

Wow, you read it so well, thanks

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

Based on how perfectly the "Unknown" line matches the Windows line, I'd expect that actual Windows is the sum of those two lines

[–] Awwab@kbin.social 103 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Looks like however the data was being collected it started considering some version of windows to be unknown.

[–] azenyr@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago

The answer that makes the most sense

[–] blake@fedia.io 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My guess is probably Windows 11 users who switched back to Windows 10.

[–] Hupf@feddit.de 19 points 1 year ago

🔵 Windows

🟡 also Windows, but yellow

[–] alphonsothe28th@lemmy.world 60 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They switched to a new OS for two months. You don’t know her though, she goes to a different school.

[–] PottedPlant@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Aidan@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Settings > General > Aboot

[–] HonkTonkWoman@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

She goes to Canada. It’s a big school.

[–] spacesweedkid27@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

It depends on how the data was retrieved.

My guess would be that HTTP-GET requests were collected and the information about the OS was extracted.

If this would be true, the reason of this spike could be that one big browser randomly decided to not send OS information in GET requests and then the "bug?" was found and fixed.

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Looks like it was Big Dipper season

[–] ebits21@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

Unknown happened

[–] Beardwin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I find it amazing MacOS is sitting around 20%. My oh my how times changed.

[–] Judgy_McJudgerson@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

This is completely speculative and likely very wrong, but:

Computer order for school districts were backed up because no one anticipated the loss due to COVID and the budget is only so big to order so many. This means we didn’t get all the replacements we needed and then suffered more losses during the school year, plus with the implementation of online school as an option. As we can’t afford name brand, like Windows (my school bought chromebooks), I assume that April and May is when the school districts put in orders for next year’s laptops.

[–] const_void@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

From what I've heard the PC market has had a bit of a rebound.

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