Comment by rbanffy
4 years ago
> The overwhelming majority of people on Windows are there because Microsoft bent over backwards to give businesses what they needed so that they could beat out Apple and IBM to win the desktop wars of the 80s and 90s.
That’s one case of “it came with the computer”.
But Microsoft was really clever at giving all the functionality companies want for their corporate issue computers. In the mid-2000’s very few companies offered Macs as desktops because of that. I only have a work MacBook because it can authenticate against AD and has all the management automation required by my employer. That’s also why a Linux laptop wasn’t an option.
> That’s one case of “it came with the computer”.
No, that's the reason why it comes with the computer in the first place. You don't think that PC manufacturers just decided for everybody do you?
Microsoft won for a one reason - they have products that solve problems better than anything else.