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> I'm not sure even they even care about windows clients beyond legacy contracts

Why wouldn't they? Windows does billions of dollars of sales a year.

Ya, for sure they care. I guess I'm just making the point that cloud and productivity tools is now the money maker & not just windows. According to this breakdown Personal computing is around 38% of Microsofts revenue (which is alot) https://www.fool.com/investing/2019/02/19/heres-how-microsof...

Windows has already lost out on the server game. Less desktop apps are being written each year with the move to mobile/web based apps. The desktop OS is largely becoming irrelevant.

We've been hearing that for 20 years; previously it was Web apps that would render the PC (aka desktop) irrelevant.

There is a huge and profitable class of applications that require the features of a PC. The Internet and wireless LAN/WAN and ARM architecture haven't changed that.

I feel quite positive that the web will be de facto platform (more than desktop or mobile) for writing apps. Things like WebGL, FRP, ChromeOS will only make that all more pleasant to write and use apps causing a (already happening) gradual shift in platform.

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