Which company is more crucial to the Web we know today, Microsoft or Adobe?

Well, look at it this way: If Microsoft didn’t exist, all those folks with Web sites hosted on Windows server would have to migrate to Apache — which is where most of the Web is anyway. And we’d use Firefox instead of IE.

But if Adobe wasn’t here, there’s no Flash and no PDF.

Which do you encounter more often?

Just an early-morning thought. As you were.