Comment Re:Why didn't microsoft die? Very simple... (Score 1) 223
Gaming is pretty minor relatively speaking. My take: they were the only viable option other than Mac. Apple for a while were weirdos with PowerPC machines, then a while later still weirdos with PowerPC machines that were then obsolete. They switched to intel but never really had anything at the same price/power point as you could get in the high end on a PC, or at the bargain basement consumer or small business level. Basically Wintel had no real competition.
Post PC centric: they've done a good job being #2 in the cloud, #1 in cloud office, leaders or at least up there when it comes to server software (SQL Server, exchange, IIS, AD), still hanging on to the PC market, not huge but nice little businesses in gaming, surface machines, and PC peripherals. Basically if you are from an Apple fan prospective there's Apple and everyone else, and 95+ percent over everyone else is MS. Basically they've diversified and everywhere they've gone other than phones they've either become the #1 or #2 paid option (ex Apache or MySQL might have more users but in terms of paying customers