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MS is the next huge monopoly in a post AT&T (pre 1984) world and like AT&T, the power companies, the cable companies, the railroads, and so on, they all eventually learn to love regulation and tariffs. In fact they become addicted to them and over the long run can't earn money any other way.
And when Balmer is fired for being a moron obsessed with Yahoo, MS will buy eBay and Amazon and become a cash generating behemoth like never before. At that point MS will be the second or third largest retailer in the US and will give Wal*Mart a run for its money. The government will step in to guarantee a fixed ROI to MS with an investment horizon measured in decades.
Bill Gates' stock and his foundation will be worth 3 or 4 times what it is today making him the western world's first 200 billion dollar man (Several Arabs are already there since they effectively own and operate Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the UAE).
