Is it Microsoft's job to provide a "free market" in a new market that they create? Of course not. Agents in a free market can certainly create sub-markets with

Is it Microsoft's job to provide a "free market" in a new market that they create? Of course not. Agents in a free market can certainly create sub-markets with their own rules, so long as they don't violate the rights of anyone in the broader market. And to my initial point, government helped Microsoft. Their dominance might have been shorter lived otherwise.