> The Old Microsoft way was to threaten to cut off vendors just for competing, not for giving a competitor an advantage. What specific incident(s) are you refe

> The Old Microsoft way was to threaten to cut off vendors just for competing, not for giving a competitor an advantage. What specific incident(s) are you referring to? The closest thing I can think of is threatening to witholding volume discounts based on vendor behavior. As I understand it this practice is only illegal because the dominant market position of Windows and Office makes MS (retroactively) a monopoly. If a small startup did the same thing that would be fine both legally and (IMO) morally. I don't know of any cases where a vendor was threatened with not being able to sell Windows or Office (i.e., "cut off"), however.