With azure's success, windows is no longer microsoft's most profitable product/service and it hasn't been for a long time. Chromebooks got a small but stable fr

With azure's success, windows is no longer microsoft's most profitable product/service and it hasn't been for a long time. Chromebooks got a small but stable fraction of the education and laptop market. Many activities that required a desktop can now be more easily done using a smartphone, tablet or smart tv. Web services are, by definition, multi-platform; making an OS-specific features unneeded. The set of reasons to use a desktop won't disappear but it is still getting smaller and will continue to do so for some time. It is a matter of market demand... windows is no longer as valuable as it was and will eventually become a second class legacy product. When that will happen is hard to predict.