TBH and fair here, in early 2k if you remember that far back, MS was portrayed as the big evil company. This can be seen in those Apple documentaries of the era too where Bill was cast as an evil villain. They even put doubt the reasons for his philanthropy.
Consequently, because they were the giant company and a had a perceived "monopoly," the euro courts required them to open up their IP (kernal) to allow for companies, like you guessed it, Crowdstrike, to exist and compete. MS holding out on giving out it's IP (api) (sound familiar?) and introducing Excel/Word was a big nail in the coffin for companies like Wordperfect and Lotus123. Being the big player, they were vilified for this.
Apple being this "wonderful" little company that everyone adores and loves because of their great business practices and underdog status wasn't and hasn't (yet) been deemed a monopoly and thus isn't blindly required to give access for other companies to exist and be competitive. There's a double standard going on here.
BTW, I'm not saying MS is this wonderful company. They're just no more, or less, scrupulous than Apple. Unfortunately, because of the courts, companies like CS can really eff it up. I've been around Apple products plenty, and I've seen them do bad things and spin it off as a feature and the apple army eats it up as gospel.
It has always struck me as odd that Apple has become everything we hated about MS. In fact, they're so adored that the courts won't do to them what they did to MS (yet or did they learn, and MS should try and revisit these cases?). Nor will they act when Apple takes other companies IP. In some cases, they even approved of it (I guess they like their new phone/watch feature so much that they don't want to lose it).
