> Something that's dawned on me for the last few years is that Microsoft basically settled on the idea that the idea of the modern operating system is effective

> Something that's dawned on me for the last few years is that Microsoft basically settled on the idea that the idea of the modern operating system is effectively done, which I suppose is true, but then they stopped creating technologies to build on top of Windows all together. What happened was open source software, linux dominating the server side, and android dominating mobile (iOS as well, to a lesser extent). > Except everyone publishing software today that isn't a game developer is targeting the web. Except for nearly all backend development... which mostly targets linux first. > OK, but Microsoft is in the best position to create great, integrated, first-class technologies that build on how great Windows is. But they don't. I have mixed feelings about this, because when Apple does it, they basically put people out of business. For example? Apple software is average, and Microsoft has a long history of 'putting people out of business' (not in a good way). > But here's the thing, in 10 years time, you're going to have Windows, which is still just, and will continue to be, Windows. And macOS, and iOS, and tvOS, and every other Apple OS, is going to be so much more. And they already are so much more. You forgot... android and linux. How does apple 'already have so much more'? > For those who haven't experienced it yet, or can't afford Apple products, they're missing something that just hasn't happened in computing in any other period of time I can immediately think of. That just sounds like an opinion of the average non-tech user who lives inside an apple bubble and likes icon shapes and default keybindings. You're not saying anything specific, just poetry about apple being 'first-class' and 'something that just hasn't happened in computing in any other period of time' (???)