If you're of a certain age, you might remember the Microsoft anti-trust trial of the late 1990s, or perhaps the Steve Ballmer years in which Microsoft's strategy was to put Microsoft software on every device and elbow out anything without Windows or Office branding. The "Wintel" behemoth was a feared, occasionally loathed, seemingly immutable fixture of computing for tech leaders and consumers.

Link: Windows 11: Microsoft marches toward open platforms
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