Oren wrote:

In short, they want MS to give a free distribution ride to their
competitors.

And competitors stand-by, licking their chops.

I cannot image the work that went into the OS so MS could pull the
tentacles of IE out of the code. :-))

Ah, the old maxim: Be careful what you ask for...

Which just illustrates that MOST anti-monopoly crusades are not about the
consumer, they are about the would-be competitors to the alleged monopolist.

The poster-boy for monopolies, John D Rockefeller and his Standard Oil
company, brought down the price of Kerosene from $3.00/gallon to five cents.
In three years. The people who supplied whale oil for lighting were
essentially put out of business but the rest of the world got light.