>Sorry, what? Windows still has > 90% market share on desktop. If that isn't "user-based leverage" I don't know what is.
I thought that was addressed with this line:
>Windows remains an important platform in the enterprise and for gaming (although Steam, much to Microsoft’s chagrin, takes a good amount of the platform profit there), but the company has no platform presence in mobile, and is in second place in the cloud.
The 90% of users are largely enterprise (who don't go out and buy software on a whim) and Steam customers. Anecdotal, but the only reason I still have a personal Windows machine is to access my huge Steam library. I think a lot of gamers are in a similar situation. If my entire library worked on another platform (and all my preferred hardware), I would have very little reason to stay on Windows.
I thought that was addressed with this line:
>Windows remains an important platform in the enterprise and for gaming (although Steam, much to Microsoft’s chagrin, takes a good amount of the platform profit there), but the company has no platform presence in mobile, and is in second place in the cloud.
The 90% of users are largely enterprise (who don't go out and buy software on a whim) and Steam customers. Anecdotal, but the only reason I still have a personal Windows machine is to access my huge Steam library. I think a lot of gamers are in a similar situation. If my entire library worked on another platform (and all my preferred hardware), I would have very little reason to stay on Windows.