Microsoft is losing Builders fast. They’re switching to MacOS and Linux. The biggest pull keeping people on Windows, outside of shear inertia, is content creation and gaming. However, even these are falling to Linux.
Without Builders, you don’t have software, and without software, you don’t have users. This is why Microsoft needs Windows Lite.
I will never forget the bewilderment I felt the first time the File Explorer crashed – and that hasn’t been the only time. Forget Office, they can’t even get the start menu to work properly. Call it feature rich if you like, but of any modern OS they are the furthest away from the core stuff working reliably in my experience.
explorer crashes all the time. I would never act like windows isnt a piece of shit. But we’re not talking about windows here we’re talking about the 365 suite and enterprise suite of services which are pretty easy to say they’re stable and easy to manage.
Well, the original comment was about Microsoft products, which includes the OS. I understand if you say you meant to only refer to the Office software as “core services”, but “we” are talking about Microsoft products and I would argue their flagship OS is the corest of them all, and as you said it’s garbo.