Wow, what terrible link-bait. >Microsoft's "Windows monopoly" hasn't been so much destroyed as rendered irrelevant. > But only 15 years after the government w

Wow, what terrible link-bait. >Microsoft's "Windows monopoly" hasn't been so much destroyed as rendered irrelevant. > But only 15 years after the government went after Microsoft for anti-trust violations, the idea that the company ever had a "monopoly" on anything is hard to even understand. It was never disputed that they had a monopoly. Why all of the scare quotes? > In terms of market value, Microsoft's loss of power has long been visible: The stock is still trading at about half the level it hit at the peak of the tech boom 13 years ago. Really? Stock price is the indicator? Does it matter that they had a stock split in 2003? Or that they pay dividends now?