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Re:Microsoft accidentally reveals that it is testing ads in ... by cm2187 on Thursday March 17, 2022 @12:42PM (#30713120)
It may be that the cost of maintaining this humongous pile of legacy code isn't justified by the revenues they think they can extract from it.
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Re:Microsoft accidentally reveals that it is testing ads in ... by Torwald on Thursday March 17, 2022 @12:52PM (#30713265)
I think this is the right answer, compared with something the grandgrandparent touched upon: windows apps from third party vendors do not act as competitive advantage anymore. (This us also due to how Windows OEM contracts work.)
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