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by scholia 3427 days ago
There were advantages for users and advantages for Microsoft. Both sides won.

As for your "garden", anybody can build their own Windows PC and sell it, without restriction. Anybody can write Windows software, and sell it. Anybody can use a Windows PC and software for any purpose they choose.

If you want to attack people for restrictions, you can find far more of them in other parts of the tech world.