Microsoft didn’t design and build these fundamentally flawed products as part of some grand plan to monetise the fixes later. They did it because at various tim

Microsoft didn’t design and build these fundamentally flawed products as part of some grand plan to monetise the fixes later. They did it because at various times in the past they: Didn’t understand servers, coming from a desktop world. Didn’t understand multiuser environments. Didn’t understand networking, in particular networking beyond the scale of a small workgroup, and certainly not the Internet.