I doubt it would’ve won anyway. There were loads of OS’s at that time, most not having the issue of the US government intervening, and none of them won either.
Had the japenese not been spooked by the sugestion it waa a threat(which was cleared up as not being one) it totally could have been adopted nationwide, as it was ready to deploy to their schools.
And today we have BSD as the basis of Apples OS.
Microsoft has gone from say 85% market share down to the 60s now I think.
Maybe we will see a day MS loses to Linux since that hit 10% use last month, and has over 15% use in India.
MS certainly is not helping themselves win lately.
I doubt it would’ve won anyway. There were loads of OS’s at that time, most not having the issue of the US government intervening, and none of them won either.
Had the japenese not been spooked by the sugestion it waa a threat(which was cleared up as not being one) it totally could have been adopted nationwide, as it was ready to deploy to their schools.
And today we have BSD as the basis of Apples OS.
Microsoft has gone from say 85% market share down to the 60s now I think.
Maybe we will see a day MS loses to Linux since that hit 10% use last month, and has over 15% use in India.
MS certainly is not helping themselves win lately.
Could have? Maybe. Likely would have? No.
Based on what?
Are you assuming a threshold moment, would happen the same under different circumstances?
Burden of proof bro. I’m not the one claiming that it likely would have.
But changing events changes outcomes. They were poised to deploy in schools. That is the number one way to get user adoption for life.