Honest question: what's the defense that makes this not monopolistic behavior? This is MS going around trying to get all of the vendors for hardware to switch o

Honest question: what's the defense that makes this not monopolistic behavior? This is MS going around trying to get all of the vendors for hardware to switch over to a system for which they are both the client AND the gatekeeper. The end goal is clearly to prevent anyone from entering the consumer operating system space without their express permission, giving them full monopoly over the consumer OS space. This would be like if in 98, they hadn't just been making it difficult to use other browsers, they had been asking all of the other OS vendors to add IE to their systems and disallow everything else that they don't like.