I am hesitant to put any unnecessary software layers between my databases and the hardware so I wouldn't know. But it doesn't matter. Even if everyone stopped

I am hesitant to put any unnecessary software layers between my databases and the hardware so I wouldn't know. But it doesn't matter. Even if everyone stopped buying and using Windows tomorrow /Microsoft/ could still use it. MSSQL is not dependent on a thriving market for Windows. Anyone that needed to administer the machine could just RDP into it.