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

mossTechnician 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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.

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Akronymus 7 hours ago | parent [-]

"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.

	▲	mossTechnician 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I believe Microsoft can skate for a long time with just bug fixes and security updates. It makes the drop in Windows' quality all the more baffling.

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wolvoleo 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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