Instead of dissing, become a playa like Microsoft. I bet that you are just a playa hater like Netscape, jumping on the playa hating bandwagon. Also, if you don't know, this is not a normal industry - the PC industry. Margins are low for resellers, vendors and distributors. Just look at what the price for memory is today and what you paid a year or two ago.
Competition is heavy and fierce.
This is an industry where the company who is the leader one day can be out of the game the next day. Netscape used to have dominance in the browser market - now Microsoft is gaining market share. The DOJ is about as popular as . . .