> All this leaves Windows curiously unchanged in the sense that Microsoft only cares to develop it when forced to by competition, and entirely changed by abando

> All this leaves Windows curiously unchanged in the sense that Microsoft only cares to develop it when forced to by competition, and entirely changed by abandoning one of its symbiotic compatibilities with its corporate clients, that of manageable continuity. This is an uninformed take given the number of architectures NT has resided on over it's 32 year history. Microsoft has put NT on ISAs where a market was (MIPS, PPC) or they thought could be (Alpha, IA-64). Then some architectures become 'good enough' (AArch64) that they attract the attention of Microsoft and magically Windows appears. I don't see how competition (no desktop OS competes with Windows or x86) has "forced" Microsoft's hand, here.