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Originally Posted by Snappy!
The last time I checked, all the corporations want to be monopoly!
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From a purely economic point of view, yes. But most consumers know that monopolies are bad for them.
As history has shown, monopolies mean higher prices and poor quality. It's better for everyone when there is competition. That's why we have laws against monopolies.
Case in point: Our largest unregulated monopoly used to let people who had a legal copy of MS Office at work take a copy home to use for free. But after that decision drove the competition out of the market, they stopped that.
And don't get me started on IE and how that stagnated after the browser war.
I'm not holding my breath for anything Microsoft puts out since they typically don't innovate. They wait for someone else to innovate and either buy them out, or reproduce the product and drive the innovator out of business.
In the case ot Origami, I don't see any innovation at all. Just another attempt at Microsoft telling us what we need.