> You can install Linux distributions and then run them in Windows
Ooook, sounds like you weren't around for the bad old days of Microsoft playing dirty tricks with their OS to sabotage application competitors. This friendly new open Microsoft is the result of decades of market pressure.
Yes, Novell, Netscape, WordPerfect, Lotus 123, Lotus Notes, Spyglass, Borland, CP/M, OS/2, ColdFusion: all dead or a shell of their former selves. There were many, many more I can't even recall. Most were superior products and didn't lose because they weren't good. Hell, they nearly killed Apple.
Spyglass was a particularly nasty stab in the back:
The deal stipulated that Spyglass would receive a base quarterly fee for the Mosaic license plus a royalty from Microsoft's Internet Explorer revenue.[6]
Microsoft subsequently bundled Internet Explorer with Windows, and thus (making no direct revenues on IE) paid only the minimum quarterly fee.
Ooook, sounds like you weren't around for the bad old days of Microsoft playing dirty tricks with their OS to sabotage application competitors. This friendly new open Microsoft is the result of decades of market pressure.