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[grantdwilliams]

I'm not interested in playing detective. People have full time jobs for that. When the extent of my political power is the ballot box I find it much more efficient to develop and refer to a logical set of fundamental principles to make my decisions rather than to argue about trivia from a specific incident. But all of this is besides the point...

Does Microsoft has a legal right to use physical coercion, threaten to use physical coercion, or lie to prevent an inovation from entering the software market that would take part of their market share. No, they don't. If they do these things (and as you say, they have done these things), they are, and should be, punished.
But if not, then they should not be punished for fairly being successful even if no one else is.