Reply to comment by Maciejczyk:

Microsoft rely on people like Maciejczyk who don't see anything before or besides Microsoft. Microsoft succeeded in creating in 1995 an inferior version of what Apple had created in 1984. It is true that perhaps the real blame lies with Apple. If they had released the spec of their apple mac pc for cloning and stuck with the software then we may all have been using Apple mac's right now. But they didn't and so we were stuck with the inferior pc + windows. It's just a great shame... not that it really matters now since the pc is on the way out and the set top box is on the way in.