[s1mplicissimus]

I think this "something else" is called something along the lines of "monopoly", "market domination", "entrenched in politics & military", "embrace extend extinguish" or "buying everything that could potentially become competition"

[karmakurtisaani]

As someone who has to use a lot of MS products in my work, I can confirm this "something else" has very little to do with software quality.