FB). Its business model is similar. So is its size. So is its vulnerability. If 2021 is to be some fall of the software gods, there’s no reason Microsoft should get a pass. The Microsoft Difference Microsoft is different in one respect from its peers. It’s been here before. The case of U.S. vs. Microsoft, decided in 2001, held that Microsoft had a monopoly in PC software. It held that Microsoft abused its power by adding a browser to Windows. The result was a settlement where Microsoft agreed to share its Application Program Interfaces (APIs) with other companies. More important, Microsoft spent the next decade in a funk. I did some work for them at the time. The company was filled with lawyers and timid executives whose job was to say no. The stock’s performance lagged the market. Microsoft became an income stock.