[voxcogitatio]

To me the really interesting question is how Microsoft ever got to be a monopoly in the first place, with the kind of products they've been making. What made windows and office succeed in the first place? Can you really coast that far just on malignant business practices?

[ZeroGravitas]

This article lays out a big problem: internally the competition is won not on technical or business merit but on politics, abuse of power, gameplaying and generally dodgy shenanigans.

He brushes aside their monopolies which were created because externally the competition was defeated not on technical or business merit but on politics, abuse of power, gameplaying and generally dodgy shenanigans.

Live by the sword, die by the irony.

[protomyth]

yep, you can coast this far. corporate inertia is an amazing thing, and revolutions don't come along that often. I think the coming revolution in mobile devices in companies will be a break the current PC inertia and might get some new players in the door.