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> Win10 is poised to be a Universal OS in the next few years

Thanks for the early morning humor. Are you sure you didn't mean to post that on this thread instead? :-)

Your blind hatred of Apple seems to have caused you to miss something. Win10 is not doing well compared to where it needs to be. For instances, the uptake of Win10 has fallen below the uptake of Win7 at the same point in its deployment years ago.

...Even with the free upgrade offer, however, Windows 10 was unable to match the uptake pace of 2009's Windows 7, which last month again accounted for a majority (53%) of all Windows. At the 17-month mark, Windows 10's global user share of 26.6% -- of all Windows editions -- was slightly behind Windows 7's 27% at the same point in its post-launch timeline...
ComputerWorld

The boastful goal of "Windows 10 on 1 billion devices in 2-3 years" has disappeared into the ozone. We can agree that Win10 is certainly the future of Windows, no argument there. But can it replace the others?

Let's plan to revisit your prediction in a few years.

So despite my first reply in this thread, I’d like to see Tim Cook removed as Apple CEO, simply for the reason that he apparently has both no real imagination, and no engineering sense.

There is no reason given its giant pile of cash that Apple isn’t offering a full range of computer products including the xMac (tower configuration with consumer parts and high end graphics cards, a higher end Mac Pro (back to a tower for this one too), and real power laptops with Xeons and up to 64 GB ECC memory.

Really the best thing that could happen would be the realization that it’s time to sell macOS licenses to all comers again. Right now it’s easy to build a Hackintosh running on select hardware, so there’d be very little extra engineering involved. Mac market share has stagnated, and such a move would generate tremendous excitement around macOS again. Then, the halo effect of macOS would lead to a big uptick in iOS device market share. Selling macOS for (say) $300 a copy would also lead to a nice revenue stream from just selling bits.

We’ll see how Apple does over the next couple years. I’m hopeful that if the lackluster product lineup continues, Cook will be gone.

A new report claims the bloom is truly off this particular rose, however, with Mac user share falling to 6.1% in December, compared with 9.6% as recently as April, 2016 — a five-year low.

In Denial?

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/242240-macs-user-share-just-fell-five-year-low

Just to prove I'm not a Apple bigot here's the definitive proof that Windows Rules.

Adult “entertainment” website Pornhub has posted a new round of web traffic statistics for 2016, confirming what we already knew: Windows users are still holding the crown for cleaning their pipes online, as most of the porn is watched from systems powered by Microsoft’s OS.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/pornhub-windows-users-still-leaders-in-holding-the-sausage-hostage-511615.shtml