My wild bet is that they'll offer Bootcamp yet again, including for Linux.
They make a ton of money with the margins on their laptops, especially considering their prior long-term memory contracts, so they don't need to compensate with services – which themselves must be costing them more nowadays since they don't own datacenters and so their expenses must have went up accordingly. In fact they likely increased margins on their hardware and decreased on services as of 2026.
They'd eat up a wild share of regular Windows market almost overnight and the growing, tiny Linux market in its entirety. I bet they'd double their laptop sales within months. It would also be a strong anti-anti-monopoly argument.
I honestly think it would irresponsible not to do so, from the fiduciary duty perspective. Heck, I should buy some more stock.
cromka•32m ago
They make a ton of money with the margins on their laptops, especially considering their prior long-term memory contracts, so they don't need to compensate with services – which themselves must be costing them more nowadays since they don't own datacenters and so their expenses must have went up accordingly. In fact they likely increased margins on their hardware and decreased on services as of 2026.
They'd eat up a wild share of regular Windows market almost overnight and the growing, tiny Linux market in its entirety. I bet they'd double their laptop sales within months. It would also be a strong anti-anti-monopoly argument.
I honestly think it would irresponsible not to do so, from the fiduciary duty perspective. Heck, I should buy some more stock.