Re: "by far the fastest adopted version of Windows ever"
"So that is a 7 point progress over 4 months.
For a product that is free."
Reminder me how all the desktop Linux distros combined are doing after 20 years...? Because that's not a ringing endorsement of a free product either, but I doubt we'll find anyone on this site who thinks Linux is anything short of an excellent OS (well, some distros).
Look, no-one actually LIKES Microsoft (who used to be hated when they were just nakedly evil under Gates/Ballmer, but have now also become annoyingly pathetic under 'Microsoft just wants a hug' Nadella), but saying that Windows is becoming irrelevant is the same Utopian balderdash that 'this is the year of Linux on the desktop' guys have been saying since 1995. After 20 years of being told Windows is over because the latest version doesn't hit 90% market share within X months of release, it's getting tired (not least because 50% of the market are corporate clients with scheduled upgrade cycles measured in years).
Windows phone is irrelevant. Always was, always will be, even with continuum. Windows server is a competitive offering that is slowly but surely losing out to variations of Linux. But Windows Desktop is still completely dominant and will remain so, to the point where the only serious competition Windows ever has on the desktop is from other versions of itself. MacOS's market share remains single-digit even after Apple's rehabilitation to be considered as a serious company. Individual Linux distros are practically rounding errors.
Basically, the world has made up it's mind, and it wants Windows on the desktop, Android on the smartphone (barring the increasingly tiny proportion centered on the anglosphere who like iOS) and Linux on the server (along with most appliances, and pretty much the whole IoT if it ever takes off). While there's potentially an argument over whether the desktop will remain relevant in an era of tablets and smartphones (and imo it will, for much the same reason that the the smart phone will remain relevant when my fridge has a computer in it - different devices do different things), as long as the desktop remains a thing Windows will remain pretty important.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
