"Name a plainly superior technology that society has set aside not because of private cost or self-incompatibility, but because wide adoption was a precondition for its success. Not easy. Network effects do exist, and in principle they could work as the advocates of strong lock-in say, but in practice they have turned out to be far milder than e-commerce zealots supposed—in case after case, too weak to suppress plainly superior products." I think I would like to read this book.
Customers who bought that book also bought: Winners, Losers & Microsoft, in which, "two top economists punch some big holes in the government's antitrust case against the software behemoth. Stan J. Liebowitz and Stephen E. Margolis argue that government lawyers are dead wrong to say that consumers are being forced to accept inferior standards and high prices because of Microsoft's hegemony. With some well-documented and original research, the authors conclude that Microsoft is as successful as it is for a simple reason: good products win." Hmmm...