On: Today's XKCD: Microsoft

[subsystem]

"[...] their strength in the X market to gain an advantage in the Y market."

Isn't that pretty much Google's business plan?

[streptomycin → subsystem]

Except Google doesn't have any monopolies, so it's legal.

[sjwright → streptomycin]

Maybe, but that goes to show the definition of monopoly is hazy at the best of times.

[streptomycin → sjwright]

It's hazy at the worst of times. At the best of times, it's very obvious, like Microsoft in the late 90s.