| mjc2021 said: Who cares? Microsoft dominated the market by offering quality software. It's not without its problems but the same can be said about everything. |
The whole point of the thread is that being anticompetitive means you are not aimimg at competing by offering a generally better product. When Win95 came out, IBM OS2 was an arguably better OS and it could run win16 applications on top of a better desktop environment. MS dealt a fair amount of backstabbing (google for the whole story about the MS/IBM deal) and the worst product came out on top.
Strategies like FUD, "embrace, extend, extiguish" and lock-in add no real practical value for the consumer. On the contrary they generally limit options for development and economic expansion of smaller enterprises.
We actually have to thank Apache, Firefox, Opera and other competitors if MS was forced to work again on its stale IE product to try to keep pace with the advancement in the web development.
