It is, to all intents and purposes, dead on ARM. Surface RT is gone, the phone division is at a bare minimum, and the Lumia range will be drastically cut back.
There's nowhere to run Universal Apps apart from x86 desktop/laptop and x86 tablet. And to do that developers might as well use Win32 instead of a whole new API which is more limited than Win32. So making Universal Apps DOA too.
So everything that MS has done after Windows 7 has been a waste of time. At least Ballmer tried to get MS to go forward in the right direction, Nadella has just put MS in reverse gear.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
