Did you read "In search of stupidity"? It's a very interesting and amusing book, and it makes a point that Microsoft monopoly owes more to competitors' ineptitu

Did you read "In search of stupidity"? It's a very interesting and amusing book, and it makes a point that Microsoft monopoly owes more to competitors' ineptitude (Borkand, Lotus, Novell, Digital Research, etc) than to Microsoft genius per se. Therefore Microsoft monopoly may be "rightfully earned" in some sense, as bad as it is - though it carried some positive effects too.