Maybe but there is much blood on the floor of those markets. They rallied around one OS, if you recall, and that OS manufacturer was successfully prosecuted for

Maybe but there is much blood on the floor of those markets. They rallied around one OS, if you recall, and that OS manufacturer was successfully prosecuted for exploiting their de-facto monopoly. Consumers were definitely harmed. Dell, the leading hardware supplier lead the race to the bottom and now flounders. PC commodity markets are cut-throat and it is Intel that makes the real $.