You forget that we probably wouldn't have had Android, maybe not even iPhones. And for all the flaws of Googles management of Android I think there's a fair cha

You forget that we probably wouldn't have had Android, maybe not even iPhones. And for all the flaws of Googles management of Android I think there's a fair chance MS could have botched it even more. I mean, just one of the old MS guys was enough to more or less sink telecom giant Nokia ;-) Linux adoption on the desktop is small but rapidly rising now. If Microsoft had gotten their way back then I doubt that could have happened. Your argument seems to take for granted that Microsoft wouldn't have come up with the same or maybe even sleazier tactics. I wouldn't take that for granted.