The article is fingering the wrong problem. The trouble isn't in Microsoft's reach but in the nature of its profit center. Microsoft makes billions each year o

The article is fingering the wrong problem. The trouble isn't in Microsoft's reach but in the nature of its profit center. Microsoft makes billions each year on a monopoly. The rest of the company stagnates because it has to help defend the monopoly. Companies that make their money in competitive markets can't afford to prop up uncompetitive projects, but a monopoly has to. And Microsoft is looking less prosperous because the market it monopolizes, desktop OS and document prep, is a smaller and smaller part of the industry.