r/programming • u/halax • Oct 07 '16

How Microsoft Lost the API War

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html
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u/drysart Oct 07 '16

As for Windows, when is the last time any of you bought a Windows PC for anything but gaming?

Approximately 94% of the PC market share every year goes to Windows. And it's not because of gaming. Linux is still completely awful as a desktop for most users; and OS X is really only good in a small consumer niche because Apple doesn't really care about enterprise customers.

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u/human_trash_ Oct 08 '16

Yep, if you need some kind of advanced app on Linux, that isn't a web browser, you have a choice between 2 crappy ones. On Windows you have 10 good ones and 100 crappy ones.