Windows seems to be designed for people who aren’t savvy enough to use Linux, and don’t want to buy a Mac. They get away with egregious design practices, becaus

Windows seems to be designed for people who aren’t savvy enough to use Linux, and don’t want to buy a Mac. They get away with egregious design practices, because the OS is ubiquitous and the common user has no other choice. Mac OS on the other hand, has kept a fairly consistent design, mostly due to the obvious barrier to entry for most people ($$$), so any mistakes that would impact usability could easily give someone a reason to not spend $1k on a laptop or even more on a desktop. Microsoft needs more competition. What’s stopping them from re-skinning Windows 10 to resemble Windows 7, and add actual functional improvements? They’ve done that recently, but they didn’t need to redesign their start menu to add workspaces (just one example).