>>>MS's strategy has shifted from OS (and supporting applications) to infrastructure: SQL, big data and Cloud (Azure).
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>They still control over 95% of the desktop.

Not MY desktop, and even at best of times they controlled perhaps a third of it. Now they are down to a miserable two cores, 3G and 180G of disk, no sound, no video, no USB, no email... just FTP and a share on the host disk. No visits either, just clipboard synchronization.

The kindness has been returned.