Furthermore, Microsoft makes no bones about wanting its systems on every computer possible. It's a strategy he defines as helping computer users through compatibility and by setting standards for the industry. So far the strategy has worked. It has made numerous Microsoft employees millionaires. Because it has received complaints from Microsoft competitors and others that the company's tactics in pressuring software developers have gone beyond the bounds of legal competition.
Gates naturally disagrees, says the government is meddling in technology.
Gates is wrong. When a company has such a dominant share of a critical industry, there is a public interest in seeing that it does not stifle newcomers. That has been the American way going back almost 200 years, long before there were formal antitrust laws.