[Joeri]

But it would pull a bunch of developers away from new scenarios to put onto an ever-shrinking desktop market. Most likely we'll just see all new products become cross-platform and the execs will wait until a new "iPhone moment" comes along to get ahead with consumer OS.

I'm still fascinated by that. The iPad Pro and the Chromebook have taken away a lot of windows' traditional market. But ... you look at how people are using them, and they're using them as laptops. Why couldn't windows take that place?

The logical answer is: because of all the legacy. Windows is too easy to break (even microsoft can't upgrade it without breaking it), and too hard to use, and it needs major investment to fix those problems. So, why stop investing in windows when it's the lack of investment that makes it unable to compete? I'm still struggling to understand that one.

It seems microsoft's management has concluded they can't and won't compete after windows 8 flopped, and they'll just stretch out the decline of windows as long as they can and hope to catch the next wave. I'm sure google and apple love them for doing that, but I still don't quite understand it.