Re: what a lot of people..
The PC war was not won by MS on features, but was won on being unified and standard over all the x86 PC's on the market combined with binary compatibility with previous versions. Bill Gates was spot on to see that binary compatibility is a very big asset, even IBM pokes itself on the chest that model 370 compiled MVS binaries from the 70's run on modern z-Series.
Having witnessed how Unix/X11 self destruct itself with the Unix wars from the late 80's, MS offered what user like. Freedom of choice in relatively cheap hardware, many applications, and binaries that ran on everything.
Does anyone remember what a 32-bit Unix 68020 workstation cost in the early 90's ?, for that money one could populate a room full of Intel-80286 PC's.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
