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Akronymus | 1 month ago

Because they no longer see windows as anything more than a delivery platform for their subscription services, IMO

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You're entirely right, but they need to maintain Windows in order to promote those services. The OS and their various applications have a symbiotic relationship where they prioritize each other.

If Microsoft discontinued Windows and switched to just providing web apps, the competition would be a lot stiffer.

Akronymus|1 month ago

"maintain" meaning keeping it somewhat workable or actually improving it?

ATM windows still has enough of a moat that they can comfortably do the former.

wolvoleo|1 month ago

True but it is still their moat. Without windows they will lose a lot of appeal to their cloud products like Intune, Azure AD, M365 etc

apothegm|1 month ago

Yup. The same thing is happening with Apple. With software mostly moving to the cloud, operating systems are getting short shrift.

resonious|1 month ago

If this is the case, Windows seems like it should be very important. Otherwise they can't deliver their subscription services. I'm not going to subscribe to cable TV if my TV is broken.

Akronymus|1 month ago

It just has to be good enough to be able to deliver the service.

Their moat, for now, makes this possible.