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 10 is an attempt to satisfy people who prefer to use a mouse and keyboard than a touch screen. They invented Windows 8 to give people with mobile devices a nearly identical experience on laptop and desktop PCs. Of course people who never had such things complained it was not mouse-friendly, so Microsoft created a way to make the software better for them.

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