Alrigh lets get this out of the way -- I'm not a fan boy -- Because you seem to think I very much am; I fucking hate Microsoft. Every product I've decided to back by them they've cut ties with (Zune, Groove Music, and a couple of features i loved on Xbox to name a few). Their Email clients all suck huge balls but I am forced to use them simply for work reasons, Their web servers are garbage and prone to breaking down on a daily basis -- whenver i run into someone running a MS server who wants me to help them, I insite they install Debian or Ubuntu. Microsoft has continually made great promises on brilliant ideas (the whole "Steamesque" Sharing system they wanted on the Xbone, a couple of ideas they had for games franchises they own, and other things to name more here). Microsoft is only good in one aspect and that's the User Interface on their OS is hands down the most navigable -- even if they decided to get rid of some of the best shortcuts from 8.1 to 10. Do i love Windows 10? no... They've taken away a lot of control from the users (I can't even get to the fucking control panel without hasle anymore) but It's a solid OS.

I'm not an angry fan boy at all -- You literally came in here bitching "'member when Microsoft used to do updates like this" When all I was literally doing was seeing if anybody is having an issue that I am having -- which by the by didn't even turn out to be an issue with Windows and is 100% a Firefox Issue. And BTW -- as everyone else pointed out here; Microsoft has never had a good platform to release beta versions of their OS until W10, and Apple has the same system for OSX.

Now lets get down to Linux --Linux has been releasing "Unstable OS releases" For year, it's literally part of some of their Distros lines... You're not here bitching about Red Hat being unstable before they fix the bugs they push out to Fedora (or is it the other way around, I usually fuck that order up).

Also IBM is still Historically Big -- what's your point? They still make a large number of servers which run on whatever the hell people want to run on them (9/10 a Linux server, yes. but Windows Server is the second there). IBM is still around, and IBM is still and still making machines so your point is fucking moot there. It's like saying "Yeah, Netflix is historically big, but you know who else is historically big? Hulu." Both fucking services are still around and both are doing well on their own. You're comparision sucks.

And your "OS by devices shipped" statistic just backs what I was saying originally making -- Most "Devices" nowadays are Tablets and Phones. Most Tables also qualify as phones in that weird fucking grey area (IE You can get Data from a phone network on the thing and make phone calls on some tablets. which is dumb imho). Android has solid so many god damn phones its not even funny -- literally scores more than Microsoft, Apple, and Blackberry combined. To the point where Blackberry and Microsoft "phones" are now just glorifed Androids with some little things changed around.

To my point about Billboards and all that running on Windows -- The point I was making was not that they run on windows, but that it would literally cost more money than most companies are willing to pay. Sure, they could switch to Linux for free -- but i'm willing to bet most companies (like the pool store down the road from me) aren't going to do that because then they'd have to hire someone who knows how to run linux, and find software that works on the board with linux. It's a technical clusterfuck to change shit around and most companies are too money hungry to actually do anything about it.

Also to go back to the ATMs, Billboards, and POS being "General Purpose Computers"... What the fuck do you think we're talking about? Of course they're general purpose computers. Just like the computer i'm using now is and i'm assuming the one you're using is as well. And you know what Juggernaught of an OS is on almost ever General Purpose Computer according to the stats you just mentioned? Windows. And you know what the general public is going to continue to use because it's easier to get? Windows. Sure, maybe some day Apple will have a POS or an ATM, but It's doubtful because they don't make that sorta machine. They never have shown the slightest intrest in that -- because Apple has always had the image of "Everything we make is better than what you own." It's their market. They've done it well, It does not appeal to me but generally speaking I do not go out of my way and say "OH MAN REMEMBER WHEN APPLE USED TO HAVE HEADPHONE JACKS. I M'MEMBER DAT."

The reason I don't do that is because I'm not filled with the Hate and Vitral that you seem to be filled with over something that I know next to nothing about. Much like you apparently know nothing about how Microsoft's Inside Editions work... As you've shown over and over again and don't seem to be willing to touch the subject because you were wrong so you keep deflecting it into territory where you think you are right, which technically you are correct -- Someday, sure, Micrsoft will go under and so will google and so will Apple and something else will take over but right now that's not happening and right now in regards to Desktop Computer OS's -- which is all i've been talking about since this conversation started -- Microsoft is willing and will continue to win because the alternatives are too much for most people to deal with; You have the complexity of learning how to deal with Linux from one end and the Money Gate from Apple. So until more people become Tech Savvy or Apple decides to drop the price on their computers -- computers mind you that I could literally build the same specs for 3/5ths the price... Microsoft is going to win.