Quote:Microsoft doesn't even remotely own all of the internet or all of the computing. 

 

Past tense.  IE, Office, Windows used to dominate their markets.  Now they are all in a major decline, and have been for years, and possibly on a path to irrelevancy.   Windows 10 is a desperate attempt to avoid it.  

 

Obviously they didn't own the internet and computing literally.  But there was a point when IE had like 95% market share, and every website had to run through it.  And there was a point when software had to run on Windows, or nobody would even buy it.  

 

It was just a matter of time that the competition caught up.  But stuff like Windows 8 and completely dropping the ball on the mobile market are proof they are partly responsible for their own demise.  

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