that's called "making a good product" and "a better product than your competitors". there no monopolistic manipulation, here. there are no deals with hardware

that's called "making a good product" and "a better product than your competitors". there no monopolistic manipulation, here. there are no deals with hardware makers to omit Sublime Text and pre-install VScode. there's no threat of refusing to sell Windows licenses or to increase their price if someone doesn't comply. nothing was embraced. nothing extended. they haven't forked Electron or used some open source component, forked it and added features so that the userbase has left the open version in exchange for Microsoft's extended version. this isn't EEE, this is basic product competition. I still maintain that since the 1990s, a LOT of people view Microsoft through evil-colored glasses and they don't know it. they take those glasses off when viewing the activities of any other company. Microsoft got the verdict they deserved in the antitrust trials. they were rightly found guilty. Microsoft hasn't repeated that behavior in any meaningful way since, that I can see, and I've been looking. I'm just not confusing normal capitalistic badness for historical Microsoft badness.