> How anyone could be against competition, simply because it's framed in a cheesy phrase, is beyond me. Because you've entirely misunderstood what EEE means. I

> How anyone could be against competition, simply because it's framed in a cheesy phrase, is beyond me. Because you've entirely misunderstood what EEE means. It absolutely does NOT mean to "do a better job." That phased was coined SPECIFICALLY because it was how Microsoft either absorbed competitors, or put them out of business. They spent decades doing JUST ENOUGH to persuade people to use their stuff, even when it was NOT as good -- given the advantage of their monopoly position and vertical integration -- in order to starve the competition of oxygen.