That doesn't align with the actual history at all. One of the extremely well known, defining characteristics of Microsoft in the 1980s and 1990s, was releasing a weak product that they then improved substantially over several versions. Your premise is they didn't improve products as a means to conquer, when that's exactly how Windows took its market share after a horrible initial release that flopped: it got a lot better; ditto for plenty of other examples such as IE vs Netscape.

It applies to at least: MSDOS, Windows, Office and most of its products, Internet Explorer, SQL Server

In fact it was so well known that's how things worked, it was a saying that they only finally got things right by version three.