Windows might have been the OS with the overall top market share at one point (depending on precisely what you include in your measure), however measuring only "traditional" desktop/WS and server makes no sense anymore, and even Android alone has now nearly caught it: http://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share
If you consider all the consumer electronics with a GUI that run under Linux, it is probably even "worse" (well, worse for Windows...)
You could argue that all of that does not make a unified platform, but neither does all the Windows (although the fragmentation might be somehow less important there)
Believing that a system/techno can take over the world in a year can be stupid. Believing that market dominance can't change in a decade or 2 (even if that's driven by usage changes), equally so.
(I was kind of surprised when MS started to completely switch their strategy and be furiously OS agnostic in tons of area. When you look at the figures, they actually did not have the choice if they want to survive the next several decades, and they probably would not have done that if they had...)
If you consider all the consumer electronics with a GUI that run under Linux, it is probably even "worse" (well, worse for Windows...)
You could argue that all of that does not make a unified platform, but neither does all the Windows (although the fragmentation might be somehow less important there)
Believing that a system/techno can take over the world in a year can be stupid. Believing that market dominance can't change in a decade or 2 (even if that's driven by usage changes), equally so.
(I was kind of surprised when MS started to completely switch their strategy and be furiously OS agnostic in tons of area. When you look at the figures, they actually did not have the choice if they want to survive the next several decades, and they probably would not have done that if they had...)