

hadn’t been held back by lazy MS et al.
MS is not lazy but working hard to maintain their lead.
edit: Just noticed that my phrasing is bad and could be seen as praise. OP is right, MS is holding everybody back.
I meant to say that they abuse their market domination to maintain their lead.
Look at MS Teams. It was free until Slack was done as a competitor.
MS did things but that’s inevitable. The crucial part are the things that they prevented.
It’s increadible that OP is even downvoted.
It’s still possible to ask if Germany could have prevented it.