Microsoft seems to care less about platforms than apps nowadays. Windows and Xbox are important, but mostly because they get people to buy Office and Microsoft

Microsoft seems to care less about platforms than apps nowadays. Windows and Xbox are important, but mostly because they get people to buy Office and Microsoft games. On the platform front though, the Steam Deck is for most people purely a gaming device, but their PCs are both gaming devices and workstations. SteamOS only solves the gaming part. Microsoft might be worried about their platforms if they put work into getting the workstation part better, or they might embrace it and dive entirely into selling apps and games