The Downfall of Windows: How Microsoft Lost Its Way

Not the Windows We Knew

Microsoft Windows—the name everyone knows—is now heading towards its downfall. This isn't the same Windows we used to know anymore. Earlier, whenever you looked at any computer, you only found Windows. We used to think that if there's any best operating system for computers, it's Windows, because the whole world was running it. But the reality is probably something else. The reality is different, and Microsoft Windows is now going somewhere else in a few years—something we can call its downfall.

Let's study the downfall of Windows.

Profit Over People

The first thing is that Microsoft Windows now only wants to earn profit. It's not giving users the experience it was once known for. Here, you see lots of bloatware—like LinkedIn and God knows what comes pre-loaded. Windows has become a big collection of advertisements, which was never there before. Check Windows XP, check Windows 7—you wouldn't see anything in the name of advertisements. But now if you pick up Windows 11, it feels like a billboard. It feels like they've taken out a whole collection of advertisements and put it there. They've filled it with bloatware. User experience can go to hell. If the UI feels bad, let it feel bad. We just have to put big companies' bloatware so that we can extract maximum money from people.

Data Collection: And this has become Windows' main motive. Windows wants to collect as much data from people as possible. "We don't want to remain a good software company. We want to end our years of legacy. We don't want it." So what to do? First, make logging in compulsory. Those good old days when you didn't need anything to install Windows—just do offline setup and use Windows—those are gone now. If you don't have a Microsoft account, or you haven't signed up with Google or something in Windows, you can't install Windows, brother.

So making someone sign up means tracking their usage data. First, we'll earn money from useless applications and bloatware. Second, we'll earn by collecting people's usage—where they're going, what they're doing, what things they're downloading. Making someone sign up, sign in, log in—this has become the only meaning there. Is this happening for people? No, this is only happening for profit.

The Business Mindset

If you think Microsoft company was innocent from the beginning, that's not true. These people are very cunning. Cunning means business-minded people. And this isn't a bad thing. I'm not saying anything wrong here. But one thing is—they have to earn money.

Bill Gates' Vision: You know, when Bill Gates started Microsoft Windows, he started with MS-DOS, which was for IBM computers. Bill Gates did one very interesting thing—he didn't give exclusivity that his MS-DOS could only be used on IBM. In those days, whenever software was made, it was made for one particular hardware and couldn't be used in any other hardware. But Bill Gates was a very visionary man. He knew that going forward, his software would run on all other computers too. That's why he could promote it. Because if he had tied MS-DOS only with IBM PCs, when IBM PCs died, his operating system would also die.

But Bill Gates didn't do that. What did he do? He legally allowed it with multiple PCs. That's why you see Windows on many computers today. Otherwise, it was only made for IBM PCs. So brother, from the beginning itself, they had thought that they want to control maximum types of devices—which is a good thing, but also a very cunning thing. A very smart move, as they say in English.

The Real Change

The real change started when Satya Nadella took charge of Microsoft in 2014. He started investing in VR, AI, and all these things. Now the business model itself had changed. What used to be the main focus—Windows—is not the main focus at all now. The company doesn't want to earn money from Windows. It wants to earn from other things like subscriptions, Copilot, and all these extra things. It wants to earn from services, from different products. Windows is not the main focus for earning money at all.

Only 10% Revenue: And you know what? A company pays attention to whatever brings money. Whatever doesn't bring money, they don't pay attention to it. This is the truth. Do you know that only 10% or even less of Microsoft's revenue comes from Windows? Just think—whatever a company earns, only less than 10% comes from one product. So you tell me, how much attention will that company give to that product?

Microsoft company is now just maintaining monopoly with Windows. It's not providing quality to people. And this is where its downfall starts. Look at the past—whichever company, whichever product didn't provide quality, drowned with time. And I don't feel bad saying this—if going forward, Windows ends completely, Microsoft won't be much affected because it was only earning 10%. It can launch some other new product and easily compensate for that 10% revenue.

The Big Gap

But there will be a very big gap in the market, friends, because we are still dependent on it. We can't even think beyond Microsoft Windows. We talk about Linux, we talk about different distributions or distros or whatever versions, flavors, different Mint, Ubuntu, who knows what. But mainstream work still can't be done on it. Video editing and many things can't be done. Many people don't know how to run it. Don't know how to install it. Don't know many basics because people watching this video were born with it. Meaning, the first computer they saw, including me, was a Windows PC.

First-Mover Advantage: So this monopoly is maintained. They've already got the benefit of first-mover advantage, friends. So it will take a lot of time for any other operating system to come. Many people will have trouble adapting to it. Yes, that's a different thing—if some operating system comes that looks exactly like Windows, completely copied, then we can say. Otherwise, if some new thing comes, people might have difficulty adapting.

Here, I know Apple has an advantage that if it opens its macOS a bit more, it can attract many people. But Apple company will never do this because it stays in closed environment and wants people to do just that too.

What's Next?

So the question arises—what's next? Now a very big gap will be created, friends. If Windows' downfall happens, meaning if it ends, there's a very big gap. If any company can make a good, simple operating system, it can rule the world—I'm writing this and giving it to you.

The Warning Signs: Now let's talk about what things directly indicate that Microsoft Windows is not what it used to be. The first thing started from Windows 8 itself. Windows 8's start screen was so hated—they made it like that to capture different devices, for touch devices, which was hated very much.

Here, if you go to Windows Store, ads are pushed. Windows 11 has installation barriers, brother. If you don't make an account, you can't do anything. OneDrive, Edge, Copilot—all these are given uselessly when there's no need for them. They launched Copilot so that they can earn profit. These people want to earn money from AI. If they sell AI products independently, no one will buy. So give it with a product that everyone uses. People will definitely take Windows then. If sold directly, no one will buy this Copilot. It comes with Windows, so maybe some people subscribe to it. Otherwise, no one will buy it.

High RAM Usage: Now see in Windows that RAM usage is very high on idle. People are applying all kinds of tweaks. They're debloating it. Now whole companies have stood up that debloat Windows—meaning they make the standard Windows installation lightweight. And that works very well. So can't Microsoft company do this? It can. But it won't because it has to earn money.

How will it earn money? Until they don't give LinkedIn, until they don't give Copilot, until they don't run useless background services—that Xbox thing, Copilot, and Edge, and OneDrive—who uses OneDrive, brother? And if we need it, we'll install it. LinkedIn—brother, what will I do using LinkedIn? I don't want it, why are you putting it? Don't know what all free games and what news and whatnot they're giving, brother. We don't want to know about it. Still, they're giving it.

Now it's such that normal people can't even remove it. Check Task Manager, don't know how many resources it's eating. Microsoft has invested 80 billion in cloud. Brother, they've done it because now it will become an AI company. Wants to become middleman. Microsoft knows that with Windows, they won't be able to earn much money. 10% is coming, what company runs on 10%? So what have they done? They've started investing heavily in data centers. Going forward, their earnings will come from AI, not from Windows.

The End Game: And when there's no earning, one day you'll see the news—Windows is finished. Bye-bye, no Windows will come after this. You people manage yourselves, brother. These people don't care. They cared when people were on Windows 10, which they made outdated—"brother, Windows 11 will never install on old computers. Future Windows 12 also won't support." Did they think how 400 million computers became useless? Became scrap? They didn't think, right?

So going forward, they won't think this either, even when all your computers get ruined. They don't care, brother, they have to earn money. They haven't opened any charity that they've taken contract for everyone's computer. This is what we have thought—that computer means Windows. So this is not reality, friends. It's just an operating system. Today it's there, tomorrow it might not be.

The Final Reality: Now, you can't say that this is Windows' long-term strategy or what. But the Microsoft Windows that we knew, that we know—that's not like this anymore. That has become useless. Its experience is ruined.