On purpose? Not likely. Also I don’t expect them to be able to handle save and open of files using the web versions of M365.

But I think they would use libre office and not question that it wasn’t Microsoft office since it would open their files like they are used too.

Apple computers, which is a higher market share than Linux, are more expensive. That’s what I was getting at.

Windows became dominant because of enterprise software sales 20 years ago. Now everything runs in an electron wrapper that can run on any platform or in the browser.

PCs don’t even have optical drives anymore. No normal consumer even knows how to install a program today, let alone is considering legacy program compatibility when making a computer purchasing decision

I am qualifying my statements based on interactions with my coworkers of whom I deploy and manage their PCs. I could probably install mint on 50% of their PCs and the only reason they’d notice is because Microsoft office looks different and is called Libre Office for some reason

98% of Windows users, use windows because that’s what the OS that came with the computer they could afford.

98% of windows users probably don’t know what version they are on or even what windows is

All that information is integrated in Active Directory and available for Microsoft to ingest into their AI. Heck it could be something they put in the system prompt. “If you have low confidence in your output then respond ‘contact your manager’ instead.