Passing judgement on Microsoft's media juggernaut

In response to my last post on Microsoft's rapidly growing global footprint in the digital media universe, one ZDNet reader complained that, while I was reporting on that colonization, I wasn't taking a stand or expressing a viewpoint. Another ZDNet reader, Godot, took such sides, accusing Microsoft of unfairly wielding its operating system monopoly in an effort to dominate yet another market.