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The significance of the number is not that it "lost 0.8%", it's that this month's number is like last month's well above the previous trend line, making the record high look that much more like a meaningful change and not just a random fluctuation.
The data is still noisy month-to-month and just how meaningful it is remains unclear, but this data point is nothing but good news for linux market share and framing it as somehow the opposite is misleading.