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Microsoft spent decades and billions of dollars buying their way to market dominance. They didn't achieve it through having a superior product, they achieved it through bullying. Software developers were forced to write software for Windows in order to reach an audience.

The fact that people will choose a different platform and begrudgingly emulate the software that's stuck on Windows is a knock against Windows, not a knock against the other platforms.



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