I disagree: Linux is a competitor.
Microsoft does not like competitors.
Except well cooked and drenched in ketchup.
Microsoft is a monopoly, and it should have been burned down to the ground a long time ago. Sorry if this sounds like Linux fan boyism but this is a fact. What we had so far is a truce, while the monopoly studied carefully the newest adversary.
It is now ready to move, apparently.
@trashheap
@ParadeGrotesque @craigmaloney @trashheap that's not what monopoly means. you mean to say anticompetitive. microsoft is not a monopoly and never has been.
When you have 70% market share vs every other competitor... You are a monopoly. Period.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/268237/global-market-share-held-by-operating-systems-since-2009/
French has a term for this, which roughly translates as "abusive dominating position": sure, you are not a monopoly, in the sense that there are competitors. But your own position is so important you effectively control the market.
@ParadeGrotesque @craigmaloney @trashheap depends on how you define the market. desktop computers are irrelevant now
@ParadeGrotesque @craigmaloney @trashheap microsoft/windows has a very tiny slice of the "computer operating system" market. the vast majority now are running linux (android).