But they are dominant in their field. You couldn't find a person that hasn't heard of Microsoft and darned few who haven't used or owned their stuff. That's what I meant, not a comment on the quality of their products.
In the 1980s Reagan adopted the IBM PC (open standard) running MS DOS (proprietary OS) as the standard desktop PC for the US gov. When the US gov says that all it's employees will have a IBM PC running MS DOS on their desktop it's kind of hard not to be dominate in your field.
No one will ever need more then 640K ram. Bill Gates.