I disagree- people have always knows Windoze is a monstrous, slow, convoluted maze. But.... and this is a gigantic but (easy boys!), it is the PC that is needed in the industrial world, which is most of civilization. I was a Mac guy until 1991 when I had to go PC because every single piece of serious industrial software on the planet ran on that or Solaris (anybody even remember that?).
We are now in the classic circle problem: no one in the industrial world writes software for Macs mostly because there are not enough Macs worth bothering with. Nobody buys Macs to run anything industrial because there is little to no industrial software for them. Couple that with Apple's proprietary nature and the deal is done. Besides all of that, with decent modeling software costing $5K per seat, why get excited about the $1,000 or $2,000 computer that it requires to run?
Macs are, and always have been, slick. I am sure Ipads and Iphones are also. But as far as computers go, PC's have always had the software edge and it is not by a little bit either. Beta was the superior format compared to VHS but that alone was not enough to allow them to win.
Brian
And people finally realized Windoze is and always has been junk.