That's a nice non sequitor. A monopoly on productivity software really doesn't have a relationship with advertising policy.
Also, to answer your charge, the price of Microsoft Office 2003 Standard Edition is probably about the same as WordPerfect 5.1 was when it was released. Considering the number of applications, the feature set, the integration between apps, and the compatibility with existing documents, I think that Office is well priced. Curiously, Microsoft has been charging about the same about for Office for, well, forever. That means that they charged this price long before they had a monopoly, so, um, their price isn't really reflective of a monopoly. And, the same goes for Windows.
Why don't I take another stab at that open document attack. When Microsoft wanted Excel to have a piece of Lotus 1-2-3's pie, the reverse engineered the format, and provided the ability to seemlessly read and write Lotus 1-2-3 documents. The .doc and .xls file formats have not changed in quite some time (about six years or so). Why hasn't anyone gone to the trouble to do to Microsoft what Microsoft had to do itself to get into the market? And if you claim that others already have done that (and done it well), then you've just admitted that the open document thing really has nothing to do with Office's supposed monopoly.
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