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The Microsoft Monopoly
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The Microsoft Monopoly Criterion A: Describing the Issue Throughout the years that the personal computer has become the mainstream, different companies have competed over the control of the consumer market. Microsoft, who at one time was a small company with just two employees, has become a computer market juggernaut, rising so fast in power that many did not see it coming. It has taken over the desktop operating system almost completely and it continues to dominate in other areas of the industry as well. It has acquired exclusive control over several computing areas, turning the company into a monopoly. As with other monopolies that have occurred in the business world, it has caused an enormous impact in IT all over the world. Because of its private control of most of the computing world, it has been given the key, although not intentionally, to the future of our technology. Criterion B:...
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