It’s fascinating that some people see Windows as a retail product who’s customer is the end user. It’s much more accurately described as a foothold for all the

It’s fascinating that some people see Windows as a retail product who’s customer is the end user. It’s much more accurately described as a foothold for all the other products. From Office and Sharepoint to the multi-figure licenses on the big business products, it’s all resting on the fact that Windows is used by future employees who then become managers who then become C-levels. Seeing it through the lens of the product for consumers, free security updates can be MS giving a gift to the original purchasers. But seen through the lens of a foothold the free updates are a marketing expense so that maintainers of legacy systems have just enough reason to backburner investigating non-Windows operating systems as replacements.