> But that's part of what lost them their lead after the '90s
I think that guy lives in a bubble, Microsoft is still by a huge margin the lead in desktop OS market share :-P.
And really the main reason is that they try their hardest to not break people's applications. If Windows suddenly couldn't run the applications people wanted, everyone would migrate to Linux (and some to Mac, but Linux is free so the majority would go for the free stuff).
I've seen quite a few legacy Windows app needing to be run as administrator, compatibility mode, or both. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should. It's glaringly irresponsible that applications should be given read/write access to the C:\Windows folder because that was acceptable in the 90s.
Now when I get an exe that needs to run in compatibility mode I don't even bother with it. I'm not compromising my computer because a developer has abandoned their software.
I think that guy lives in a bubble, Microsoft is still by a huge margin the lead in desktop OS market share :-P.
And really the main reason is that they try their hardest to not break people's applications. If Windows suddenly couldn't run the applications people wanted, everyone would migrate to Linux (and some to Mac, but Linux is free so the majority would go for the free stuff).