I can see it now:
MS Product Support: Hello, how may I help you?
User: Outlook does not run on my computer.
MS Product Support: OK, can you tell me what version of Windows are you using?
User: Oh, I would never run Windows, I only use Linux. I use CodeWeaver to run Office XP on top of Linux.
MS Product Support: I'm sorry sir, Office is only supported when run on Windows.
<The next day>
Slashdot, news.com, & ZDNet headlines: Microsoft stifles free speech of innocent people
<3 months later>
Lawyer: Your honor, this is clear and indisputable evidence that Microsoft is a vile monopoly. They have taken the hard earned money of my meek, mild-mannered client, and oppressed him by tying the use of the Office program to their Windows operating system, a product which was proven in a court of law to hold an illegial monopoly. I demand that Microsoft be put out of business, thus stopping their crimes against humanity, that all it's executives be sent to jail for life sentences, and their employees be shackled to their computers until they produce a free, open source version of all their software which runs on all operating systems, even the Commodore PET.
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