content: You're not wrong but a double edged sword cuts both ways. While they have an insane market position they still have to eventually cater their consumers. So if the vast majority of people stay with Windows 7 - as the case appears - then that's who they have to support. Whether they want to or not. The thing is that it isn't just your average consumer you're talking about  - a market that will likely move over to smart devices, anyway - but actual institutions that use it to get stuff done.  Sure they can bully you're average consumer all they want because where the fuck are they going to go? But when you're taking on other companies of equal or greater value to yourself who not only have actual market power but all the means to push back with litigation or fiscal manipulation then it seems obvious that that shit is not going to fly.  The fact that no matter how hard they pushed it it has still only gotten to a quarter of installs pretty much means it's a failure in my book.