&gt; I disagree. Before the game plan was to keep everyone in windows.<p>Three things:<p>1) That describes a corporate goal, not a set of behaviors used to achieve it. There are many companies out there who <i>also</i> have the goal of &quot;Keep everyone using our software.&quot;. Not many of them have utilized such destructive techniques as Microsoft has in pursuit of that goal.<p>2) Your second sentence would be more correctly spelt &quot;<i>Microsoft&#x27;s</i> game plan <i>is</i> to keep everyone <i>using Microsoft software, wherever possible</i>.&quot;. When you spell it that way, it becomes clear that the <i>big</i> picture actually hasn&#x27;t changed. Windows <i>was</i> (and remains) a big part of that game plan, but for the past decade or two, it would be hard for an honest observer to make the claim that Microsoft was <i>only</i> interested in keeping folks on Windows.<p>3) <i>Many</i> of us have seen Microsoft play nice with the wider community. They <i>never</i> play nice for <i>very</i> long. The more cynical old-timers would say that this &quot;play nice&quot; phase is -itself- a part of the EEE strategy.