> Imagine if the government hadn't stepped in to limit Microsoft's monopoly That seems like a stretch. Microsoft has drastically decreased in influence because

> Imagine if the government hadn't stepped in to limit Microsoft's monopoly That seems like a stretch. Microsoft has drastically decreased in influence because they didn't get in on the big new trends soon enough - web search, social networking, and mobile. I don't see how anything the Government did enabled that. At most, the implied threat of further Government action might have prevented them from more drastic efforts to block those things.