Nadella clearly doesn't care. Windows is down to about 12% of their revenue and is probably shrinking, presumably it'd be a lot lower still without the ads and

Nadella clearly doesn't care. Windows is down to about 12% of their revenue and is probably shrinking, presumably it'd be a lot lower still without the ads and upsells. It reports into the office team! People care about where the growth is: Azure grows, Windows shrinks, and so Nadella moves Microsoft's best people over to the cloud. Unfortunately it's also pretty clear that the windows team is bored, visionless and drowning in tech debt. At work we ship software to Windows and it's astounding how buggy their API is, the horrific nature of the bugs and how slowly they get fixed (or never). You get the feeling it's a retirement home atmosphere for developers over there where little gets done and nobody notices. Nadella could probably turn things around if he wanted but the plague affects Apple too, just less severely. Desktops were once the frontier and a growing business, heavily fought over, then it became mobile, then AI. People don't believe there's any juice left to squeeze in revisiting better desktop tech. Google developed three operating systems: one never made it to desktop machines even though it could have done, one was simply chrome and nothing else, and one got stuck being permanently experimental. None of them contained much in the way of new ideas except Android But this is a pity. Desktops are where work gets done, where new tech is developed. They should get more investment than they do.