Regardless, one of the tools that I require to do my job is Windows-only and will always be Windows-only, so I will need to use Windows in some capacity.
This is such a cynical viewpoint. I could frame most corporate software this way.
Really? My Mac doesn't show ads in the dock for Candy Crush and Minecraft and Netflix and whatever else, and I dont have to spend hours cleaning trash off a new Mac install.
MS is branding themselves as "low end" junk by doing that kind of thing.