Microsoft COULD go more open, less restrictive, less money grabbing, with Windows, look away while little people get away with piracy of windows, resulting in people installing it on everything everywhere, a huge user base and “success”.<p>Instead, MS is imposing hardware restrictions, requiring accounts, requiring subscriptions, polluting it with advertising.<p>As a result Windows will only lessen over time, fewer will install it, people will avoid it, stay in what they’ve got.<p>This is Microsoft’s genius “strategy” for Windows - squeeze - and make people resentful and disinterested instead of making Windows an exciting “must have”. Who is it at Microsoft makes such decisions?<p>I’m not running Windows 11 for these reasons and same thing for 12.