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They're just not as interested/invested in Windows any more. They make obscene amounts money from their cloud services, even if they charge 4x for a special edition Windows, it won't bring them any meaningful increase in income.

And now their focus is all on AI. A MS employee I spoke to recently said that all there meetings now revolve around AI, like how they can add more AI and sell more AI, that's all they call about these days. :/



Incredibly baffling business decision to give up such a dominant position in the PC / OS market by continuing to enshittify it beyond repair.


From the company that was the dominant web browser for a decade and left it to rot. They're pretty good at throwing away a lead position




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