Quote Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat View Post
No market functions perfectly. Some, however, blatantly dysfuntion. For example, the demand for an industry standard guarantees Microsoft a virtual monopoly. (Who wants to learn how to operate a computer with an entirely new system every two years? What computer games would stil be developed if it could only work on five, instead of ninety percent of computers?)
The irony being that MS makes a new OS every couple of years to sell more product and making its loyal consumers learn new ways of doing old things.

Also it isn't so much the OS that determines what computer games work (a lot run their own shell) it is the hardware... so once Apple went Intel they became far more game friendly.