But “the best for their money” need not be short-term. Shareholders have successfully sued big oil for not preparing enough for climate change, for example.

(https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/15/oil-shell-directors-sued-for..., https://www.forbes.com/sites/timabansal/2021/05/27/big-oil-u...)

It will be a lot harder to argue that developing a closed-source component is, in the long run, bad for Microsoft, though.