Nowhere as far as anything innovative or ground breaking (the same for Macs). Because of the enterprise lock in, Microsoft can’t make drastic changes to Windows.

If anything, they are still trying to get away from their x86 dependence and move people to ARM. But on the other hand, from what I heard about the latest surface laptops running x86, they get great battery life and are only slightly worse in performance than ARM equivalence.

As far as software, only vertical markets where software has to be done offline or performance is critical will we see any Windows native software.

Windows isn’t even Microsoft’s core concern anymore. It’s Office. Server products and Azure.

The windows product itself is being enshittified into an ad delivery machine, and surveillance tool.

As for writing apps for it: use dotNET, IT work will be using powershell

Most large well run businesses use MDM and have rules to preveht information leakage to Microsoft and ads.

When I use to buy Windows computers, I always bought the business line. Are they just as bad as the consumer products these days? The last time I bought a Windows PC was 2016.