If you read the FOF, you will find that it is not about Microsoft capitalizing on the laziness of people. It is about Microsoft's abuse of its monopoly position in the market place. The ease of use features you tout in Microsoft's products are the types of innovation that Microsoft quashes in other products. They buy up or undersell any product that might threaten their monoply position which slows down innovation across the industry. If you look around, you will find may testimonials stating that the ease of use, power, and configurability of OS/2 is much greater than Windows. If Microsoft competed in the market place fairly, we wouldn't be having this conversation. Everyone would also probably be using a much more stable and advanced operating system instead of one that needs to be rebooted periodically rebooted just to keep it from crashing. You say that we should just develope a kick ass operating system to kick Microsoft's ass but with Microsoft's unethical and monopolistic business practices, even if we a develope the perfect OS, we wouldn't be able to win. That is the whole point of government intervention in business. When it gets to the point where the monopoly is abusing is position to keep competition from appearing and harming the consumer through high prices/bad products, the government steps in to correct the problem.
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If you read the FOF, you will find that it is not about Microsoft capitalizing on the laziness of people. It is about Microsoft's abuse of its monopoly position in the market place. The ease of use features you tout in Microsoft's products are the types of innovation that Microsoft quashes in other products. They buy up or undersell any product that might threaten their monoply position which slows down innovation across the industry. If you look around, you will find may testimonials stating that the ease of use, power, and configurability of OS/2 is much greater than Windows. If Microsoft competed in the market place fairly, we wouldn't be having this conversation. Everyone would also probably be using a much more stable and advanced operating system instead of one that needs to be rebooted periodically rebooted just to keep it from crashing.
You say that we should just develope a kick ass operating system to kick Microsoft's ass but with Microsoft's unethical and monopolistic business practices, even if we a develope the perfect OS, we wouldn't be able to win. That is the whole point of government intervention in business. When it gets to the point where the monopoly is abusing is position to keep competition from appearing and harming the consumer through high prices/bad products, the government steps in to correct the problem.