Sometimes their OS responsibilities could be a lead albatross, too. I would, very mildly, suggest that the cash money that kept MS afloat as a player all these

Sometimes their OS responsibilities could be a lead albatross, too. I would, very mildly, suggest that the cash money that kept MS afloat as a player all these years was always coming from enterprise, specifically their lock on office formats. Shows you that sometimes it really does help when you pay off the ISO TWG/TAG to make your format the ISO format. That scheme would shake out different today[1], because man, respect for ISO is not what it was in the 1990s. For goddamn good reason. To quote a colleague in my industry, who's far more eloquent than I: "ISO can die of dicks" [1] Which doesn't prevent a whole cottage industry that will promise to make Your Special Sauce an ISO-Approved Special Sauce. Selling shovels to miners, I guess, except replace "miners" with "greed-eyed motherfuckers trying to make imagemaps a data exchange format".