Ive just had four wisdom teeth out an hour ago so excuse me if i come accross as a little groggy.
JetRacer, you have the term industry standard and standards wrong. Standards relate to globally accepted formats, interfaces, protocols etc etc. An industry standard refers to a product that is the most widely accepted and used package in it genre. So may point still stands, Microsofts Office is the industry standard, ie in the industry standard broser etc etc. Yes the make their oun standards, but the are the industry standards.
eg, Adobe photoshop is the insustry standard image manipulation packed, but it uses its own standards.
And Hello! regarding windows not making all the money. Go do some research, first of all, i did menion at im refering to the consumern level only, where they DO get way more revenue from office and other software titles. Its a fact.