The issue with Windows that the HN public might have trouble to understand, is how bad decisions are sticky in a company with little to no taste like Microsoft.

The issue with Windows that the HN public might have trouble to understand, is how bad decisions are sticky in a company with little to no taste like Microsoft. You can't suddenly change things and expect app developers to accept it like they do in OSX. This means they can't change Windows too much. Any new change creates lots of compromises and just slapping a new UI doesn't fix the underlying issue. This has been the case since forever, that's why Apple could survive and that's why we have Linux. It isn't worth for Microsoft for example, to change how program becomes initialized at system startup. What happens is that every program then will want to be initialized at Startup. The average windows user is used to have to close lots of garbage at system startup. Also dealing with pseudo-ads all around the OS and also edge. Changing this would probably mean less revenue and no corporation would prefer to delay revenue in a bad product that will likely never die. Mac likely wouldn't be vibrant and with so much attention to details if Windows didn't exist. There wouldn't be a market for it.