Get real. Apple has doubled its market share in the last 3 years and Linux has a larger installed base than Microsoft in Web servers. Computing has moved into smaller devices, where players like RIM and Nokia and Apple and even Palm continue to slap Windows CE around like it's not there.

On the Web, Google is the monopoly with Yahoo increasingly looking like Apple circa 1996. Talk to anyone who advertises on the Web and see what they think about Google.

And when was the last time anyone used Windows based blogging software?

The world of personal computing is so much more diverse than it was in the bad old days of Windows domination. If you want to look into monopolistic structures, I suggest you take a look at the American oil industry, which stopped innovating when it figured out how to get you to pump your own gas and buy junk food at their "service" stations. Or the AMA. Or Major League Baseball, which owes the world big time for making George Bush a "success" - something he couldn't do in any industry that wasn't a monopolistic scam beholden to political favoritism.

I signed up for a Hotmail account before the Microsoft takeover. It worked pretty well on my home dialup connection, but after Microsoft took over, it runs so slow and freezes up so often, I hardly ever look at it. My Yahoo email works well regardless of the connection speed. Microsoft Internet Explorer is so inconvenient and counterintuitive to use, I switched to Netscape years ago and now use Firefox. The new Microsoft Word which came on one of my new computers is so baffling I never use it. The older version is also crap...I'd just like to have a word processor with no "defaults" making decisions about outline formatting,etc. I spend ages fighting the stupid thing, going back over something it did because it thought it was smarter than me. What you type should be what you get.

I don't really care too much for the moral issues, but when a company monopolizes a given field of business and then foists off one excremental product after another on the public, it's no wonder that the concept of evil becomes associated with it.

The world of personal computing is so much more diverse than it was in the bad old days of Windows domination.

Where can I get me a pair of those rose-colored glasses?

Rupert Murdoch IS EVIL PERSONIFIED, IN ALL ITS[it is not HE but IT to me!] RAPACIOUS GREED & MENDACITY! Murdoch WILL SOON BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING and BLASTED INTO SMITHEREENS, ALONG WITH THAT FAT _UCK Roger Ailes & THAT DESPICABLE CREEPY CRETIN Bill O'LIE-lly and the rest of the SCUM at FOX! VILE EVIL[an ANAGRAM] MUST BE DESTROYED!!!!!