>MS has a well-known habit of entering every new market with an under-powered
>(if not to say downright cheesy) product and then enhancing it until they
>have 90%+ of the market...
>
>I could see the same thing happening for any number of vertical market business
>applications once they get started...

You may as well complain about the tides or the sun rising in the east. That's what they do. Microsoft are not innovators, never have been. But they sure know how to come into a promising market second (or later) and eat your lunch.