1) He was saying doc was a standard and that Microsoft was ensuring no one else could create doc files. The latter part is the monopoly. 2) This is totally no

1) He was saying doc was a standard and that Microsoft was ensuring no one else could create doc files. The latter part is the monopoly. 2) This is totally not a one sided problem. You think Microsoft is emailing Google to work with them on the issues? Ha. 3) You can POP/IMAP into your Gmail and download all of your email. 4) You squashed this into the same paragraph as the email thing, but yeah, that sucks. I agree. Alternatively you can use them until you are big enough and then hire someone to get ads directly from people but that doesn't help the small guy. I don't know what a noble solution is to this is - maybe everyone should agree on a format for moving ad campaigns around? But hell, even Chrome asks on first run what search provider you want to use in a SANE way that encourages people to pick, unlike the IE of today that makes you jump through 15 screens just to get to pick a search provider. I'd hardly say they are being monopolistic (which is the actual illegal part of being a monopoly).