I’m not saying I agree with this decision from Microsoft. But I am sure Microsoft has the sales figures on the WoA devices to justify whatever decision they want to make on this. Right?"I don’t know that I’d go that far. "But no worries, I’m sure Microsoft will get a ton of sales of WoA from all their wonderful devices that run it. A business, on the other hand, can’t afford to use unlicensed software or unsupported software for production purposes. But what percentage of the total are they? And they also, probably, don’t mind running an Insider Build, which might be unstable occasionally. We are a Windows user, but we also have Windows instances in our ESXi infrastructure for accessing resources on different sites, or shared applications etc.If you are a business, you can justify the cost of a Windows cloud instance, that gets billed onto the client, either directly or indirectly through hourly rates etc.The ones this really hurts is the home user, who can’t justify a cloud instance of Windows. Either terminal servers, virtual instances on their ESXi, HyperV Servers etc. The noisy minority always bubble up to the surface, but I wonder if there are any statistics about the number of Windows VMs running on Macs?And business users have other options, today. No need to keep rebooting to jump back and forth.It would be interesting to know what percentage of users actually use Windows VMs these days. There hasn’t been much of a need to "go native" for about a decade now.Fusion or Parallels with Unity mode means that you can run the Windows software as if it were a native Mac application.
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