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I think it's a different story when it's been there from the beginning and developers choose to join your platform versus leveraging your huge already captured market.

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So a company who doesn't have a monopoly should be restricted from changing their product because it didn't use to be that way....

Seems a bit harsh to me... if Microsoft still occupied the same kind of dominent position they did 15 years ago it would be a different story, but now there are a lot more viable alternatives

The laws on monopolies don't see it that way and Microsoft still has a huge one in the computing space, despite the in-roads made in the past few years.

Actually you are , AFAIK, incorrect there. Microsoft's consent decree from their antitrust trial expired in 2011/2012.

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