they always try to prevent the market from deciding. they always were against thing that could threaten windows. people devolop for windows because they have monopoly. while i agree ms revolutionized the pc industry with windows and have given tremendous benefits, they have never given any fair advatage to their competitors. there is nothing great about them, they are just a business comapany, but greedier, powerfull and unethical than the mostnavalYou are almost contradicting yourself in your own post. Of course Microsoft is out to make money and maximise shareholder whealth. That does not make them greedy, they donate plenty of money and reinvest much more into R&D, again you cannot deny how nice their R&D is, even Linux fanatics admit that.
I am not sure what you mean by not letting competitors rise, they make strategic acquisitions for obvious reasons. They want to get the technology before their competitors can. There are plently of competitors to Microsoft, Apple is one, Sony, Google, Adobe, Sun, etc. The only way I think you would accept them not hurting the competition I think would be if there was another OS with higher market share. The issue is that is not possible due to the nature of OS compatibility. I agree it would be wonderful if we could go back in time and have an open source linux ****OS that runs the world and is completely free and open and universal. I'm not sure that is completely realistic though so we have Windows which works great and is much better than having OS X for example which would mean we would all be using crappy over priced computers we can't even upgrade because they are even more monoploistic.
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