[mbreese]

Isn't that how they got in trouble last time? That's hardly a value for the consumer.

(I know that's not what happened before, but it's still anti-competitive)

[auctiontheory]

It's not a value to the consumer. It's an albatross to the consumer.

It's a value provided to the bottom line of each of the MSFT divisions from/by the existence of the unified Microsoft corporate entity.