In an alternative universe, Microsoft stayed on Windows 7, monetized the OS through trust and a really solid app store with a 10% transaction fee, and everyone lived happily ever after.
Wouldn’t ever dare to take that machine online but there’s no reason why it couldn’t serve as a unitasker of some kind.
I mean, people work for money, but money's a mean to satisfy our needs, few people work solely for it. If corporations are people, we raised them to be sociopaths.