>>106920906 (OP)
They're upside down on a few investments and snowballing the same load of money around to feign demand in AI.
Someone has to generate real demand from outside the system at a ~10x current levels and jamming up OSes on purpose + baking in subscription models is probably one way to get moving in that direction.
>>106928879
It's all fun and games until you get hit with a choice between a variable rate payment plan for an Office + Edge suite subscription or $10K upfront to unlock your OS for third party application installation.
Sometimes there are bigger principles at play than remaining compatible with whatever the latest thing is.