I see where you're coming from now, thank you. FWIW, the sentence that followed made me interpret it more like this: Microsoft won on the desktop [while] bei

I see where you're coming from now, thank you. FWIW, the sentence that followed made me interpret it more like this: Microsoft won on the desktop [while] being developer-friendly and Apple won in mobile [while] being developer-hostile. (I didn't think the author meant to imply causality)