The culture at MS$ is to servitize enough of their products and then force customers to use them. That way, the products won't be so exposed to users and Micros

The culture at MS$ is to servitize enough of their products and then force customers to use them. That way, the products won't be so exposed to users and Microsoft will be able to limit their own liability without actually improving the back end product. Servitization is a clever way to consolidate your perpetual licensed customers over to perpetual service contacts, while also further obfuscating and locking down the underlying operating environment. This is in the best interest of Microsoft bottom line, at the expense of all private business, government, or anyone who values consumer experience really. It reduces the number of drive-by security incidents, but when WW3 happens and 75% of our economy is hosted in a whopping 12 datacenters across 3 companies I'm sure we'll be screwed. I mean just depth charging Google fiber today would probably take down 25% of the world economy.