This could also be the carrot they use to get people to switch to Windows 11. I haven't heard a single person who has said they're excited about switching. No one in IT, no one at home. Windows 11 is a complete non-story beyond concerns over TPM.
No one likes telemetry or coming back to a computer they left on to find that it rebooted itself because of an update. Reducing (or better yet, eliminating) those things would be a feature people would want to upgrade to. But if W11 is mostly about moving more of Control Panel to flat design, hardly anyone is going to bother.
The "OS as a service" era was also when they really ramped up the advertising and telemetry in windows. It would be nice if they decide whatever revenue that brings is not worth the loss of good will people had for Microsoft before all that began and give it up.
They are simply reducing their releases to once a year. It's still as a service model unless somehow that release cycle changes the meaning of that business model.
But it'll still be rolling Forward from win 10.
I know devs and companies are need the enterprise support from win, but since moving to Linux for my main desktop, it's been a breath of fresh air give it a try for those who haven't or haven't worked with it for a while.
No one likes telemetry or coming back to a computer they left on to find that it rebooted itself because of an update. Reducing (or better yet, eliminating) those things would be a feature people would want to upgrade to. But if W11 is mostly about moving more of Control Panel to flat design, hardly anyone is going to bother.