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> "Now is the time to abandon Windows. I don't know what can replace it right now, for non-technical users"

???

Complaint: Microsoft have spent years adding many features and even people with no expertise can use it. This is, somehow, bad.

Suggested course of action: Abandon it.

Complaint: There is nothing else comparable, because everything else has fewer features is harder to use, and can't run software people want to run.

> "the market is ready"

The market is still giving money to Microsoft hand over fist. Consumers have basically run to Android phones, iPads, Chromebooks, Kindles, Alexa devices, macBooks, and away from desktops entirely. What are you looking at which suggests it's ready for a change of consumer desktop/laptop OS?

I think Teams integration is more of an acknowledgement that video-calling and workplace collaboration is a default usecase for desktop computing (like email, calendar, calculator, text editing).

>They are making claims about it being more performant, but that's hard to imagine when considering their promises for backwards compatibility.

I can run Windows 95 programs on Windows 10, not sure where the knock is coming from on backwards compatibility.

>Here comes another UI overhaul instead of simply fixing the trash menus

From the leaked ISO, the menus are much improved and overhauled. Sure, I want a modern tabbed File Explorer too, but it's clearly being worked on.

The knock on backwards compatibility isn't a complaint about backwards compatibility, per se. It's about how so much of the OS is held back due to that support for old software.

The trash menus I'm referring to, while the language is a bit strong, are how there is no unified design throughout the OS. It reeks of implementing new features halfway and rushing it out, since most of what the user sees is now "new".

Their screenshots only show the cool new bling, I wanna see all the instances where its still the same Win2K UI

>Windows is a bloated nuisance OS that only stays around because of legacy software and DirectX

The reason it stays around is because of it's entrenched market share at very large enterprises. Until there is a replacement for managing huge numbers of end user devices centrally that is as easy or easier then Active Directory that won't change.

Ah yeah, AD is another reason it stays around, however, like DirectX, it can be replaced. It's a ripe market opportunity.

Replacing DX is a tall order

Windows works well enough for me it's just a tool