Standardization would have happened without Microsoft. The progression of almost every new technology is that it becomes more standardized as it become more mat

Standardization would have happened without Microsoft. The progression of almost every new technology is that it becomes more standardized as it become more mature. Take operating systems as an example. At the beggining, every computer had its own OS and software written for one computer likely would not work on others. This was a problem, so eventually we came up with BIOS, which provided a standard software interface to different hardware. Later we had a similar divergence in operating systems. Eventually Bell Labs created UNIX. Excluding windows, the UNIX specification is the standard of most modern operating systems (OS X, GNU, BSD, Solaris, ETC).