@darth *sigh* clown OS indeed. I simply don't understand how it can be popular.
@gpowerf @darth I mean, I'm only the resident Windows defender by default, but it's popular because MS-DOS was popular, and that was popular because it was actually very economical, if boring-looking, but mostly because everybody else was more competent than IBM at securing their designs and keeping them away from cheap clone computer builders.
@gpowerf @darth But also, that's an oversimplification, because it's only the root cause of the real answer, which is that MS did use that headstart to have enough relationships with hardware and software devs to be the de facto compatibility standard.
Windows is popular because *everything* runs on Windows.
And hey, they've nice features, too. Marketing convinced me that nothing ever crashed or had issues on Mac OS until I tried buying a Macbook and use multimonitor on it in the mid 2010s.
@gpowerf @darth Because it's jammed down uses throats and it takes less effort to just keep it than it does to seek out other options.
I would be very interested in an alternate universe where Bill Gates buggered off and did something else. I would like to see where computers are at in that universe.