I can't help feeling a little sad reading things like this. If only they'd managed to stay that far ahead of the curve.
In some areas they did though. Even in 1993 CD32 was the first commercially sold computer that could boot from a CD (OS not just games) and I think the A4000 had 1280x576 in HAM8 when most PCs had only 1024x768 in 256 or 16 colours generally speaking etc.
I think that come the time of Windows 95 nobody could win, not even Apple, in the corporate market. As many Apple machines may sell to students and home users world wide unless the majority of large corporations dump all x86 machines and replace every worker's machine with a Mac they will never get close to denting the M$ monopoly.
In a way this was Commodore's problem, try explaining to the bean counters why they should spend millions in the 80s changing computer architectures in something as large as the London Stock Exchange or even Marsh McLenan etc they just wouldn't do that no matter how good the Amiga was.
Where you see Macs today you saw A1000s in 1986 as far as small/medium sized businesses are. Advertising agencies in particular took the bull by the horns and grabbed onto the A1000 and held tight for a commercial advantage.
I guess whatever happened the A1000 was a kick up the ass to EVERYONE, today you would never dream of buying a non multitasking colour restricted low quality sound computer, you can thank the Amiga team for that because they showed the world how a computer should be and what we should demand for our money. So in every PC there is the spirit of "you had to become like this because the Amiga 1000 forced you to evolve"
