Does everyone out there get it yet? Monopolies=bad.

The rules that applied in the late 80s don’t apply in the late 90s because Microsoft has a near-monopoly position in the operating system and application businesses, and it uses those positions to further cement the strength of each of them. Over time the lock-in increases.

The lock-in process has nothing to do with the quality of product or the economic cost to users and computer vendors. It’s a philosophic challenge our country has dealt with before, and in the past we decided that it’s not in our interest to allow this kind of lock-in to happen.