But can it run windows while on life-support? Can we shove the core-feature we wish for down its throat to kill it faster? Can we put windows on a tablet, or phone-GUI we wish we had a market for into our os?

Nothing as dangerous to your developing product line as that "one-trick-pony" keeping the company afloat, who wants to get in.

Then again, you can get that R&D for cheap, when it inevitable crashes and burns and the developers leave the company disillusioned.