Edited sentence: - * Internet Explorer -> Netscape Killer (free).- * MS-DOS -> Digital DR-DOS Killer.- * MSN -> Yahoo.- * Messenger -> ICQ, AOL AIM, Yahoo Messenger Killer (free).- * Office -> Wordperfect, Lotus, Dbase Killer.- * Windows 95, 98, Me, XP,... -> Apple Mac Killer.- * Windows Media -> Quicktime and Real Media Killer (free).- * Windows NT, Windows Server -> OS-2, Novell and Unix MacroKiller.- It has always been the same strategy: "Copy and destroy".- Their goal is to become the de facto monopoly of computer software.As they are getting closer each time to this, they are becoming very dangerous, since they can do whatever they want with their customers, having no other alternative to choose.For example, once they got the de facto monopoly of Internet browsers with the "free" Internet Explorer, they just attacker their main competitor in software development tools: Sun Java by taking the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) off their Internet Explorer 6.If their monopoly keeps growing they could also rise their prices, stop giving free aplications, etc.If you tried to run a Java applet, you were asked to download a very old JVM.Microsoft produces real "killer applications":.NET -> Sun Java Killer.So, the other companies cannot compete, and Microsoft gets the de facto monopoly of star applications.The only way to get Java working properly was to download it from Sun site, and most users just do not know anything about it.They look for good, leading software from other companies and just make a very similar one, usually giving it free with their star product: the Windows operating system