most people are entirely happy with MicroSoft
BEagle, I think that is a bit of a stretch. I suspect those happy with MS are those who don't know there's an alternative. For them Microsoft and Windows are like the Truman Show, it's the only world they know.
I heartily wish the Mac had become the standard, though I cynically wonder whether Apple would have gone down the same path as M$. After all, if you've got a system that works beautifully, what excuse do you have to justify an expensive upgrade every two years?
I speak as an owner of two desktops and two laptops all of which are Windows based.
But one of these days!