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by smt88 4 hours ago
Windows is 10% of Microsoft’s revenue, so this is a result of them doing what you suggested and focusing on their core business (cloud services and Office).

Remember that even they switch to Mac or Linux, many workers will still be forced to use Office, Exchange, and/or Azure.
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marcosdumay 4 hours ago
It's funny... Microsoft classifies things as core or not based on revenue. That's a very bean-counter thing to do.

Also, most companies wouldn't completely abandon something that makes for 10% of their revenue. Even if every other product they have didn't completely depend on it.

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mrngld 4 hours ago
They could (and might as well) give Windows away for free. It's not an operating system for them, it's a sales funnel.

But that sales funnel needs to not exceed a certain maximum level of annoyance to the people traveling down it, or they'll look askance at other options.

I mean, not even all the Copilot silliness has been able to lead to The Year of the Linux Desktop, but Windows 11 as a whole I suspect has been good for Mac and iPad sales. And those are people that now aren't getting nagged by their operating systems to use OneNote, OneDrive, Word, Copilot etc at every turn.

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