Not the consumers so much as a ton of businesses that would have their whole IT broken.

Microsoft has really really wanted this to happen, but their attempts have failed to get traction, because it breaks just so many applications. The only reason people use windows is compatibility with all their apps, a move that breaks all the apps just doesn’t work.

Different with Android and iPhone where they managed to define the default position as app store and didn’t have to contend with “legacy”.