There's some serios issue with the data in india if you look over time in the past 12 months https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/india
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It looks to me like they were counting some windows variant as 'Other' for a time.
These issues happen a lot of times in statcounter data
Performance-tweaked, because Microsoft is incapable of performance tweaking their own operating system
Unironically true, to tweak for performance the first thing would be to remove bloat, which you can't expect from MS.
From Microsoft's perspective, the bloat is the point because that's where their profit comes from.
Why remove the bloat? That’s where all the core kernel utilities live!