MS 'Monopoly' Power (Score 1)

This position paper is interesting in (at least) two particular respects -- it supports / clarifies MS' possession, 'sins', and abuse of 'monopoly' power by:

(a)(being able to get away with) using a combo of bundling / bloat / ('integrated' & unintegrated) functionality to (eliminate competition and) actually increase prices AND force 'migration' to ever more powerful computers / systems quite despite the

(b) sharply contrasting (rapid) price declines of hardware (quite despite MASSIVE ongoing performance / functionality gains which have come out of that sector itself)

Parenthetically one might well ask what hardware / systems price declines (& configurations) might have looked like if a 'monopolist' had not been (artificially) increasing the bloat in hardware / systems needs & requirements -- one 'logical conclusion' is that hardware prices might have come down even (much) faster & the market for larger / high-end systems would have been slower to develop -- in this sense, the MS 'monopoly' probably has (substantially) 'propped up' & 'changed the landscape and configuration' of the hardware segment also...