It's a worldwide monument to that progression (though it hasn't come even close to comeuppance - surely among the most undeserved of 'Lucky' Breaks?)
M$ is a daily embarrassment to US technological skills, ethics and by inference - stark evidence of the state of dumbth in the US. Can anyone name an entity in any other bizness category - as pervasive, as despised? yet also unscathed: proving that it can thwart the law in toto, buy the US Government - all while still making a shitty set of products!
If the topic were cancer: M$ would represent the Primal Carcinoma Cell. An Edsel was just a mediocre car, bit by the ficklesness of (already legendary) tawdry taste. IBM's arrogance and greed was comparable, but their hegemony briefer - and they received market punishment as large as the DOJ's.
M$ is irregularly irregular. The suppurating boil surrounded by mere eczema.
Ashton