Predator economy, not introduced but very well played by all migty M$, has its shortcomings. There are dumb monopols and smart ones (dumb ones maximize the profit - smart ones maximize the production level). The historical milestone for M$ to turn anything in favour of its survival is long gone and might be roughly estimated at first browser war times. Steve Balmer once compared Linux to comunism. Oh how he was right. He missed one simple point though - it is marxism in fact and not vrey deep inside in Marx political economy one can find two things possibly relevant to the point. The first one is that only labour (not the capital) creates new value. The second, and possibly more relevant one for the matter, is that incorporated in Marx philosophy is Hegel who proved that each an every one system is self destructive in its essence.

Have no fear ya Americans - destructivness is yet long to come to you. As the nation (system) based on sucking in the progresive minds historicaly (with Internet there is no need anymore to bother with Immigration office for the reason) the M$ already is just a done episode on evolution axis.