I think what we're missing the point here. MS was/is causing harm to Netscape by folding IE into Windows. You could say that this raised the price of Win98 to $89 so you can get an update and IE. Still all OEM versions come with IE as does the regular retail version. And therein lines the point. You HAD to pay for an extra product (IE) to get windows98. This product caused the price of Win98 to rise. The only way that MS can get away with this action is because they are a monopoly. You're paying a higher price and you have no way around it.
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I think what we're missing the point here.
MS was/is causing harm to Netscape by folding IE into Windows. You could say that this raised the price of Win98 to $89 so you can get an update and IE. Still all OEM versions come with IE as does the regular retail version. And therein lines the point. You HAD to pay for an extra product (IE) to get windows98. This product caused the price of Win98 to rise. The only way that MS can get away with this action is because they are a monopoly. You're paying a higher price and you have no way around it.