Most hardware only comes with drivers for MS-windows. There's simply no choice anymore, forcing even more people to choose Microsoft. This is what makes me personally very angry. Unix the other. Windows '95 may be what most people want, but it is nerd un-friendly.
Single applications do everything ten applications did before.
The downside is that the user cannot choose anymore. Typing text in WordPerfect 4.2 and doing layout in a DTP package isn't done. Now everything must be done in, for example, MS-Word, which is too big for a wordprocessor and too little for a DTP package. The user cannot choose which wordprocessor, layout package, font engine and graphics package to use anymore. E-mail, news, FTP and gopher.