If MS wasn’t around, you’d still be using stencils. MS bashers are whiners.
If MS wasn’t around we’d be using LINUX, OS2, WordPerfect, Borland development tools, QuattroPro, Mozilla browsers and any number of similar superior products and all of those products wold be 30 years further down the road than they are now. MicroSoft is in the basic business of locking down 80% market shares with fascist marketing and 3’rd rate software.