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It may be that the cost of maintaining this humongous pile of legacy code isn't justified by the revenues they think they can extract from it.

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I think this is the right answer, compared with something the grandgrandparent touched upon: windows apps from third party vendors do not act as competitive advantage anymore. (This us also due to how Windows OEM contracts work.)

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