Digital dictatorship: iTunes vs Microsoft Office

There's a clear difference between Apple's iTunes as it relates to the production of digital music and Microsoft Office as it relates to the production of, say, government documents. When government departments want to change the formats of their documents, Microsoft argues, lobbies and pursuades. When music companies want to change their digital music distribution, Apple laughs and tells them to leave, because they control the one distribution channel that matters. Microsoft has to fight for Office because they know we don't need it as such.

Mokalus of Borg

PS - That's why Microsoft want to patent the new Office document formats.
PPS - Because then competing with Office 2007 is illegal if your program is compatible.