[dragonwriter]

The legal issue wasn't "taking ideas from 3rd party apps and integrating them for free into" Windows.

It was taking anticompetitive steps to defend an existing monopoly, and to leverage an existing monopoly to monopolize another market.

Its like complaining that one person gets arrested for shooting a gun when another doesn't, not noting that what the first person was actually arrested for was murder by way of a gun, and what the second person was doing was shooting targets on a shooting range.

[nightski]

Except would you not agree that once they are integrated for free into the platform the 3rd party apps generally die?