It won't die as long as it keeps coming preinstalled with new PCs, and included in their price.
The majority of their range is now provided this way.
The reality, Linux is now good enough for students and grandpa alike, plenty of customers who now wouldn’t give a toss to pay the extra price for the Microsoft branded OS.
With Ms Office barely existing anymore the old lock-in is increasingly tenuous.
Like basically sending thugs to Japanese computer sellers and threatening to revoke their Windows licenses if they even offered customers an option to pre-install alternative operating systems!!