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Yes, that playing field has shifted a lot. But Microsoft will just make more and more of their own code cross-platform (e.g. Office now exists in a modern version that's surely not very OS-specific and in a barely maintained Windows-only legacy version for anything but in name). They can sell to non-Windows customers just fine without ruining the only relevant USP Windows has, compatibility with a quarter century worth of win32 API clients.



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