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It wasn't Microsoft's meddling with the browser that was it's major anticompetitive sin; it was it's control over the bootloader.

https://birdhouse.org/beos/byte/30-bootloader/

Yet here we are, and windows is not at all the dominant consumer os, and is not the dominant general purpose os any longer.

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Windows still hovers around 90% market share, how is that not dominant?

He's counting mobile which is an "yea O.K." at best when he's also talking about general purpose OS.

>Yet here we are, and windows is not at all the dominant consumer os, and is not the dominant general purpose os any longer.

Are you sure about that?

iOS and Android have far more active devices that Windows 10. As pointed out in the article, Microsoft missed the mobile revolution, and computing has shifted to mobile devices.

And when those users need to sit down at a computer to do actual work... It's by far dominantly a Windows PC.

You can't just take mobile and give it equal representation to PC, servers, workstations, etc. It's it's own thing. Did Windows lose mobile, of course. Do mobile users exclusively use Android or IOS and not use Windows - no.

> those users need to sit down at a computer to do actual work

Not all people sit down to do work, and even those that do have more devices than they do desktops.

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