Quote: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.  

Windows still has a 85% market share in the OS market. IE holds a 50% market share on desktops. MS Office is near ubiquitous, even on Macs. Sure, it's not quite the lofty highs they had in the 90's but MS is still very much the company to beat. 

 

But they do not own the internet, no one really owns the internet. Nor do they own computing, because there is a lot more to computers than the OS, browser and office suite.

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