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Can you explain the power Microsoft had to shut down people where "true innovation" came from? and who or what stopped them from doing this?

What is the difference between "true innovation" and -- I don't even know how to ask this exactly -- "untrue innovation"?

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They had the ability to throw their weight around -- and they did. One popular example: competing browsers such as Netscape or Opera hardly stood a chance against an integrated IE in Windows. What changed this landscape? A few things, one of which was US v Microsoft.

Lotus 123 and WordPerfect were also crushed by Microsoft.

and Microsoft developed a superior office package. They were at one point behind 123 and WP.

but ironically. the browser should be integrated in the core of the OS.

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