Well, google is in the same boat as ms with their 8 messaging apps killing of services left and right. As I said if you use to core products you are fine. MS and google left to many shit stains on the carpet to be trusted anymore. You have to be kidding me with the developer tools arena just because you are one of the hipsters falling for wsl and vscode doesn't mean they have done good for the general programming platform. Look at the UWP/win32 dilemma or the PWA "integration" or even .NET. If they don't fix their stack I am not gonna praise them for some gimmicks like you are.
Tainted for the past? Did you see what happened with windows 10 or that they are not able to fix skype? To be honest there are screens popping up every day from one stupid mistake after another from ms. They have more dead products in their portfolio than anyone else they embraced change on the xbox to do a 360 afterwards. NO ONE and I mean NO ONE should put any hope into MS doing the right thing or be a reliable partner for a business. They just burned way to many bridges. Don't get me wrong if you are going for core business stuff like windows ltsb or azure you gonna be fine but never jump on anything new and hype from ms.
So all hospitals should just run old winxp on their crt/mrt and other vital hardware? ReactOS has a use case and it's saving all of us money. In healthcare and in production for cnc machines and the like.
yes, the most common resolution is still 1366x768 and the most RAM installed is 4GB. For us with their 32GB Ram and i7 processors everything is fine but for the most common user we still need native apps. If you buy a laptop with windows 10 of the shelf for under 500$ which is where most of the sold laptops everything like slack feels like crawling through mud. You even have to manage your Browser tabs or youtube starts to lag. There is no way we are ready to only serve webapps.
To be honest the main problem for me is I gladly pay 10$ for Spotify or Netflix but I just can't bring myself to pay 8$ for a todo app or 10$ for Dropbox when my hosting with 500GB and the ability to run my own cloud costs 4.99$. Most of the time it's just to much for just the convince. Besides I despise apps like Dropbox or Evernote that nag people I share stuff with to sign up for their service.
In the late 2000s I worked at a gamepublisher in Europe and was friends with the monetization guy. It was a really shitty asian mmorpg badly supported, bad gameplay it was ass. Still there were hundreds of whales spending over 20k a month. The whole micro transaction business is way older and way meaner than everyone thinks.