Re: Think of the market share
You seem to forget that MS had > 95% of all desktop/home computing at that point in time. That is why they were thumped down and not Apple (or Sun, SGI, etc, who were minor players at the time).
You forgot a "minor" player: IBM. OS/2 also came bundled with a free web browser. As it happens, MS Internet Explorer wasn't free; at least not initially. When Win95 came out, you had to purchase the Plus Pack separately to obtain the browser. There were howls of protest because MS were charging for what everyone else gave away. So MS gave IE away for free with Win95 OSR2. And were punished for that as well. There was no way MS could win and I suspect we are now reaping the consequences.
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