> They have perfected selling software, no matter how bad it is.

I agree in general with that statement, but we also need to acknowledge that those sales occur within a market that unequivocally endorses their products as "the standard," irrespective of quality, and further still the vast, vast, vast majority of their sold licenses are in corporate environments, where the people making the purchasing decisions and the people utilizing the software are rhetorically different species. I would be shocked if you could find a single person who prefers Teams to Slack, yet tons of organizations use Teams, not because it's good, but because it comes bundled with 365 services, and you're already paying for Outlook, OneDrive, Word, and Excel at the minimum. And you're certainly not going to not have those pieces of software... and therein lies the problem.

> MS can continue focusing their efforts productising the clueless user that doesn't understand anything and doesn't give a shit about all the leaks, brittle drivers, performance degradation, registry cluttering etc.

But they do give a shit. There's just no meaningful alternative. I run into people who absolutely 100% give a shit and are incredibly frustrated at just how BAD computing is lately, even if they lack the vocabulary to explain massive memory mismanagement means their phone gets hot in their hand when they're just reading goddamn text messages, they still understand that it sucks and it wasn't always like this.

> MS follows the right $$ strategy, their numbers don't lie.

That statement however is so vague it's unfalsifiable. We do know Microsoft has previously "lost" battles with individual applications in individual fields, it is completely believable that they could again and more (the entire XBox division comes to mind). What Microsoft has truly mastered is anti-competitive business practices that hobble their competition from the word go, and make it more or less impossible to compete with them on a software quality axis.

The only office suites I know of that even have numbers that are visible next to Microsoft are LibreOffice and the Apple suite, neither of which are actually sold at all.