Windows is still running on more than 90% of the world's PCs. It provided an openly-licensed standard that enabled hundreds of thousands of companies to enter t

Windows is still running on more than 90% of the world's PCs. It provided an openly-licensed standard that enabled hundreds of thousands of companies to enter the hardware and software business -- and some of them became rich. It also delivered huge benefits to the companies that freely adopted Windows to benefit from the massive ecosystem it produced. It's hard to see how many people suffered who didn't fail thanks mainly to their own mistakes. I'd put DR, IBM (Lotus), Novell and Netscape in that group.