Microsoft has 75% market share on desktop OS, and is doing a lot to keep it that way (including the windows subsystem for linux and VScode remote that make it easy to develop linux code on Windows)
In the corporate world, there seems to be a shift towards thin clients running whatever OS works best (homegrown Linux, ChromeOS, macOS) and beefy Citrix servers, as well as another shift to SaaS/on-prem/on-own-cloud web applications.
Guess we're in a revival of the 70s/80s mainframes with dumb terminals again.
I don’t know. I bought office for my Mac 4 years ago and used it maybe twice. Google docs might not be quite as good but good enough for most things. I also hate looking at the ribbon (but that is just personal preference).
Yeah, for home/personal use they're all the same, and many people don't own anything Microsoft in that arena - Google docs from a iPhone/Mac/Chromebook are often "good enough".
Businesses they still have a stranglehold, but even there I've noticed it loosening.
Over the long run, mobile is king, and windows isn’t there. If Apple or Android figure out how to take advantage of their situation on this, they could overtake windows in 40-50 years.
Is that also your overall estimate on how long the mobile paradigm will overtake the desktop one? I would guesstimate that to a decade, or a decade and a half at most, with the degeneration of written language following closely.
I say they did, in that they have to treat other OSes as "real" - if they had dominated as they did in the 90s and early 2000s they would have just made Office for Windows and left everyone else on some Web version.
https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share