@GossiTheDog i remember Microsoft. I used to work with their OS as sys admin but it was so buggy and poorly documented I figured they'd dropped that project long ago. So people still use windows? Interesting.

Their recent moves suggest strongly marketing is now firmly in control. Like apparently happened to Google search in 2019. In other words MBAs running the show. But this may be the long term fate of every large corporate run project so in a sense inevitable.

Xfce and i3 just chug along.