True. It's something I didn't write in the original comment, but Office suite is another big reason for Windows being this prevalent. For most non-technical use

True. It's something I didn't write in the original comment, but Office suite is another big reason for Windows being this prevalent. For most non-technical users, MS Office is the only program they know. for such non-tech users, Google docs is the lightweight office you get if you don't have the privilege of running fat Office on your desktop.. Well, technically Linux ecosystem has Open&Libre office. Many times when they show up in news feed, I download and try to use it. But, one thing thing I can always feel - awfully slow/laggy and looks like they are stuck in a decade ago and refuse to change. This makes it uncool for anybody to switch to it from MS office. Perhaps it is great for those obsessive tech users who tinker the heck out of it, but out of the box, it IS inferior in most ways. If anything incentives like these huge government implementations have the potential to start and fund a project that will develop an open & usable alternative to MS Office. One can dream.