And someone else would sue them for "selling me a useless half-a-system that I can't do a damn thing with unless I buy something else just so I can use it."
This whole thing never was about what MS included or didn't include. It was about a bunch of monopolists, each facing for the first time in their corporate history some real competition -- from Microsoft -- and rather than compete, by offering more value at a better price, they chose to take a walk on the marxist side, and persuade the state to do their dirty work for them.
It would be like Ford pushing the gov't to prosecute GM for selling cars at a lower price with more features.