Jim, why so bitter about Microsoft?

If Microsoft was so busy stifling the innovations of others, how do you explain the thousands of successful tech companies formed in just the past ten years? As for its supposed monoply, Microsoft enabled me and millions like me to more easily communicate and run our businesses with easy-to-use and pretty-good applications that became the standards. Products only become standards through broad market acceptance. And the market has chosen Microsoft.

Hey, some companies are great at innovating, some are great at leveraging the innovations of others, and a few companies are good at both. I think Microsoft and Yahoo! can be a winning combination, as long as MS doesn't constrict Yahoo! with it's matrix management structure, and as long as the government stays out of it entirely. The government has far too many other things it's busy screwing up than to bother with one company's acquisition of another.