Marketing, broad platform and hardware support, extensive software libraries. Microsoft began their dominance with DOS on IBM and compatible PCs, and the first versions of Windows ran under DOS. With...
I recommend installing your OS on your fastest drive. A Solid State drive offers best performance, but they are very expensive, You best bet for performance, budget, and capacity, is to install your...
That really depends upon the application. It seems that biologists tend to prefer the Windows operating system. People are familiar with it, and some of the genome projects make use of databases that...