Actually, it would have been good because competition is good, and Microsoft proceeded to sew up the market as a monopoly for decades, using a slew of underhanded tricks to do so, and grossly undermining the position of the primary innovator who held a far better product. It wasn't until Windows 2K that MS even began to catch up to Apple's work, and then Apple leapfrogged with the NeXT purchase.

> using a slew of underhanded tricks

You wouldn't be referring to IP shenanigans would you?

No, I don't mean IP shenanigans:

http://www.ecis.eu/documents/Finalversion_Consumerchoicepape...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft