I’m more cynical: I think Microsoft owns lots of stock in companies that make memory and hard drives....
A “conflict of interest”.
Also, if someone can dust off Apple ProDos to release a new version that supports new hardware for the II line, if folks can keep the Amiga OS going and if ... well ... Linux: it’s a shame someone can’t do the same with OS/2 which was at least not lipstick on a pig from the very beginning and is now become a corpuscilating collection of unused and obsolete trash code that people were too lazy to remove or fix, but only patched down through the years.
That’s the problem... They never clean out the old trash, they just try to put lipstick on it and add more to the trash pile. So now your machine has to not only shovel the new trash but it has to shovel the old trash first that should have been hauled off already. Drupal was that way until someone had the brilliant idea of cleaning up the code a bit here and there.