Your description of Microsoft might be true for recent years but their dominance in the Market was through business practices not through superior technology.

Your description of Microsoft might be true for recent years but their dominance in the Market was through business practices not through superior technology. I think back to DOS and windows3.1 and the PC software was terrible. I'm not just thinking about apple here, there were a number of good microcomputer operating systems in the late 1980s. Getting the best software developed on your platform is half the battle and history of Microsoft is to develop to market trends not to enter the market first. Computing would not have been so ubiquitous without IBM, credit where credit's due.