O, how quickly we forget the lessons of the 90's. MS did not outright ban their competitor's software because they were always in the cross hairs of the justice

O, how quickly we forget the lessons of the 90's. MS did not outright ban their competitor's software because they were always in the cross hairs of the justice department for antitrust. But they did everything they could to make life for their major competitors difficult. Every new version of windows would screw up and break the major word and excel competitors. And as far as the other search engines go, at one point it got to the point where they effectively not only banned their competitors but banned any useful site out there. Towards the end, Altavista was so blatantly selling search results, that no matter what you searched for you would always get a bunch of porn with a couple of pages selling those stupid Ethernet cameras sprinkled in. I do not know whether Google is truly not evil or wont become evil in the future. But they had much more integrity than their competitors and that is one of the reasons they became successful.