;-)
I'm not so sure I want MS to go away though. While I'm not a fan of MS and I've never even really used a Windows computer beside it being mandated in school and university, I don't want Windows to go away.
When the masses come to Linux, it will simply become worse and locked down. There are already enough companies invested who will want to do so as soon as it becomes feasible and enough influencable users are on Linux.
Windows is better then mac OS in terms of user control, so I also don't want the masses to go to mac OS.
What I would welcome is, Desktop Linux to not be a rounding error and the OS market to become more competitive, so that MS needs to improve Windows and can't ship whatever crap of the day they want.
I would have liked the solution proposed by the Department of Justice's original judge in the 1990s anti-monopoly case, though: to split Microsoft into separate companies: one for apps, one for OSes (maybe with development tools). These days, maybe another for public cloud services.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....
The first judge, Thomas Penfield Jackson, wanted them split up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Penfield_Jackson
He got booted out and replaced with the much more conciliatory Colleen Kollar-Kotelly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colleen_Kollar-Kotelly
Mostly forgotten now but the fact that this Brit can remember the names of 2 US judges over 28 years later shows how important this case was at the time.
It is why MS bundled Internet Explorer 4 into Windows 98, calling the result "Active Desktop". That flawed broken "Windows Explorer with built-in Web rendering" was the design that the KDE project copied when it created the KDE desktop – as opposed to the much simpler cleaner desktop of Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.
Lawrence Lessig demonstrated this in court: https://www.theregister.com/1999/11/22/who_the_heck_is_lawre...
He managed to remove IE, and show the result still worked fine, demonstrating that Win98 did not need IE.
That in turn let to the app 98Lite to remove it, which still exists.
https://www.litepc.com/98lite.html
It led to NLite, which works on Win10.
In other words the ripples have not died away. That court case affected the design and implementation of FOSS OSes today built by programmers who hadn't been born when the lawsuit happened.
