> You don't think other OS's have had the opportunity?
For most non-technical people that didn't separate the concept of OS and hardware, there was no opportunity. Even if you were one of those technical people who bought a PC, wiped the hard drive and installed Linux, you still paid the Microsoft tax, which the OEM had to pass on to you in order to sell Windows at all.
It's not a tired argument because the ramifications of that action are still relevant today.
> Windows is still king today because of backwards-compatibility and nothing else.
IE11 is a perfect example of why this is a bad thing.
The fact that people were able to use Office at home and at work, and Office became a strong defacto standard for documents due to the substrate of Windows being ubiquitous, also had a lot to do with it.
> the point still stands and no other OS has risen up to take Windows crown.
The Windows crown is irrelevant in a mostly-mobile-and-server world. Why did Windows 8, 8.1, and 10 try so desperately to force mobile UI on a desktop experience? Why does Windows 10X look more like a Google Chrome UI than anything else?
For most non-technical people that didn't separate the concept of OS and hardware, there was no opportunity. Even if you were one of those technical people who bought a PC, wiped the hard drive and installed Linux, you still paid the Microsoft tax, which the OEM had to pass on to you in order to sell Windows at all.
It's not a tired argument because the ramifications of that action are still relevant today.
> Windows is still king today because of backwards-compatibility and nothing else.
IE11 is a perfect example of why this is a bad thing.
The fact that people were able to use Office at home and at work, and Office became a strong defacto standard for documents due to the substrate of Windows being ubiquitous, also had a lot to do with it.
> the point still stands and no other OS has risen up to take Windows crown.
The Windows crown is irrelevant in a mostly-mobile-and-server world. Why did Windows 8, 8.1, and 10 try so desperately to force mobile UI on a desktop experience? Why does Windows 10X look more like a Google Chrome UI than anything else?