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The PC OS market is saturated and has been for years with Microsoft dominating the market since mid 1990's.
They were smart enough to realize the market was tapped out a long time ago and have worked aggressively to transform the entire organization from an OS provider into a SaaS provider that also happens make the dominant PC OS. Windows is slowly becoming just a funnel to chain you to the Microsoft "ecosystem" and make it easier to sell you more of their services. Good business decision but shitty deal for the customer.
That said, one of the major selling points for Windows has always been backward compatibility. Enterprise customers like to keep running their ancient software and some of them will pay exorbitant licensing fees to keep doing that.