Microsoft has neen responsible for slow sales for years.<p>Why? Because their insistance in linking thr OS so intimately with applications effectively stifles upgrades.<p>Upgrading a PC with a non-trivial amount of software is a complete pain in the ass.  Gone are the days of the OS and apps being independent to the point of being able to upgrade the OS without losing apps.<p>In our case we have dozens of workstation we would like to upgrade to new hardware (and some from Vista to Windows 7). The pronlem comes in when you realize it takes several weeks for us to re-install, license and configure all the software on some of these machines.<p>If I could take &quot;Programs&quot; and &quot;Programs x86&quot; move them to a mew SSD, mount it on a new Windows 10 machine and be up and running in minutes I&#x27;d buy 30 brand new machines tomorrow.<p>There have to be millions of machines out there that are not upgraded due to the same issues.  Microsoft, as I said, is at fault here.