Same end result, two different mechanisms. One of which you favor.

Building added functionality into the operating system is not the issue. The issue is Microsoft coming out with their own version of a proxy server and then threatening Dell that they are going to withold their Windows license if they don't preload their server and only their server along with Windows. Or if they call up Apple and say "we'll cancel Mac Office if you don't preload our Mac proxy server, and deep six your own version for Windows."

If all Microsoft did was product innovation The Judge would have not ruled that Microsoft engaged in predatory practices.

paragraph 93 ... "It is Microsoft's corporate practice to pressure other firms to halt software development that either shows the potential to weaken the applications barrier to entry or competes directly with Microsoft's most cherished software products."

This has nothing to do with Microsoft developing better products and everything with Microsoft hurting the computer industry and consumers by trying to restrain innovation for their own benefit.

It's high time someone put an end to this charade and put a little more competition back into the PC market.