I’m glad I’m not alone in feeling that. I watched what happened, literally competed against them in the 90’s. Recently I’ve been thinking they’d changed a lot, Edge on non-windows, Linux friendliness in windows 10 and azure, etc.. even kicking around the idea of picking up a windows lapper to kick the tires on. I got chills by this. I don’t think I’ll be getting that laptop for a while.

It’s a winner takes all world because that’s how they played the game and they made it that way. We actually had quite a bit of plurality before Windows, the UNIX world put in a tremendous amount of effort to have open standards so you could reasonably build software for multiple platforms. Sun built Java for that world. The industry seemed remarkably open to multiple platforms, which isn’t without problems either, but I think I might like it if we had a few more serious mobile players