Oh please this again. First and foremost you wont see a monopoly in game systems aint gonna happen. Why? because when generations change people move to new systems always creating an opening. With Windows and Office big corporations dont want to change standards every few years.
Not to mention MS got to where they are are with Windows and Office because of other mistakes. People have pointed out the Mac in this thread. Apple should have taken over in the 80s with the Mac, but they kept the OS to itself and concentrated on overpriced and proprietary hardware. I would say Apple was the monopoly with the Mac platform. IBM produced a superior OS with OS2 then ignored it and didnt produce software for OS2. Not to mention they made development tools super expensive. With office MS was an also ran until Windows 3.11 and Windows 95. Lotus, Borland and Wordperfect didnt take Windows seriously while MS bet the company on Windows. Lotus 123 for Windows was terrible until it was far to late and Excel had already won. Borland Dbase and Paradox were desktop databases that owned the DOS market and MS Access killed them because Borland moved to slowly to Windows (First windows version of Dbase was delayed as much as Duke Nukem and didnt come out until Windows 95 came out). WordPerfect believe that the real people that used WordPerfect wanted a DOS based version and Windows again was an afterthought. They all blew it and MS capitalized.
Its libraries that sell systems not a single game.
