[anticorporate]

Yeah, I think the decline of the Windows platform came a little later. Windows Me and Vista were crap, but 98SE was perfectly usable until XP came out, and XP was usable until 7 arrived. But, OS X and the Linux desktop made huge advances during that time period, vastly increasing the number of business software and gaming titles that would run well, so that by the 2010s, switching operating systems became a lot more viable for a lot more people. Especially with the rise of web-based applications in that time period, meaning many home users were no longer locked into a desktop client for things like email and office software.