Yeah, but... Microsoft has a monopolist strategy. That means, among other things, that their products need to be hard to both clone and/or be compatible with.

Yeah, but... Microsoft has a monopolist strategy. That means, among other things, that their products need to be hard to both clone and/or be compatible with. Microsoft systems then need to have too much complexities and oddities to be bug compatible with. It should be hard to clone APIs etc as parts of other operating systems. And so on. The implementations also need to vary over time and be replaced periodically. Just look at their "open" document standards of thousands of pages... All that can't be fun to work with. Edit: Word choice, a bit grammar.