Borland's Delphi, originally Turbo pascal, was once upon a time the best Windows Development environment and sort of exists today with the new owners.
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which is why MS is resurgent.
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Um, they spaffed over $12 billion on the phone ecosystem and it's dead.
Windows 10 is accepted because many people have no alternative and it's essentially free. Worst Windows GUI since Windows 2.
MS is succeeding in copying Adobe. A rental model for software and Azure is selling well, but a popular option on Azure is Linux. MS Edge routers are running Linux.
The PC market is flat. Home users have switched to Android (> 85% of phones + tablets) or iOS (a bit under 15% worldwide).
Since 1998 or so, the time of the infamous Halloween Papers approximately, Linux Server share has gone from about 5% to over 90% on servers the public actually use.
Chrome (the Spyware Browser from Google) has edged Safari, Firefox and IE/Edge to the bottom. Once IE had a majority. MS has even abandoned IE and now the their own engine in Edge to use Google's.
Where is this MS resurgence? Unless you only count Azure and Rental SW, it's moribund.
Even the Xbox has struggled to compete, has it made a profit over the entire life of the category?
If Apple sold OSX for approved PCs rather than x2 to x3 overpriced Macs, and Sage, Payroll, etc was on it, MS Windows would be dead. Except Apple have no intention of doing that. They'd be mad.