Originally posted here by |3lack|ce
Windows is more popular because it was here first. Back in the days of *gasp, dare I say it? I'll say it softly* command line os, there came a demand for graphic user interface. This demand became a huge cry and hewe when Apple released McIntosh, and the first Mac *was* fully GUI and *was* run by a mouse. PC users thought it was cool. Along comes Bill with his (now firmly imbedded and rapidly growing but still hungry corporation) Mouse programs for dos - remember, MSDos was the most widespread os at the time; everyone who built PC's or PC compatibles for the most part used it. Bill decided to take it a bit further and somewhere in the latter part of the 1980's (1985 or 6 I think?) Win 3.10 was released, starting on new systems (8087's) and slowly working its way through into 'off the shelf' sales as well. By the time he released 3.11 (about 2 years later) his was not only the most widely used OS in the industry (MSDos still) but also now the most widely used GUI. From there it was a matter of changing with the times, which MS has tried to do - and succeeded quite well according to their phat profit$. There were other GUI's around the time of Win 3.1, but none had the industry support or industry's trust like Bill. Now the windows we use today has about as much semblance to its ancestor as we do cro-magnon man, but there you have it, why Windows is as popular as it is today.
Windows wasn't here first.... I think I mayb be mis-reading you, but umm, It wasn't the first. For command line OSs, a GUI already existed long before Mac. WIMP

And you didn't mention Windows 1.0 or 2.