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This lines up, I think Windows Embedded had a purpose when Linux wasn’t as useful for setting up just about anything. The only purpose for Windows Embedded these days is the technical knowledge sunk into making it work for these applications. There are still plenty of production systems hanging out running the old Embedded OS versions.
It looks like Microsoft is aware that continuous support for Embedded is a sunk cost when they can help get these systems on Linux, maybe even running using Azure resources.
From the Windows CE paging Wikipedia.