Microsoft: A Monopoly
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You walk into Best Buy and look at software for your brand new
computer manufactured by IBM. You look at the price for Windows 99 , and
the price reads 300 dollars!! You walk over to one of the workers at the
store and ask him, "Is there a mistake with the price on Windows 99?" He
replies, "no" ....
Middle of paper
.... over the computer software industry.
Orrin R. Hatch, a member in the panel for the judicial courts,
recently gave a speech stating why he believes Bill Gates is trying to
create a monopoly. He said quote, The critical debate, many believe, is
the extent to which Microsoft is exploiting its current monopolies, both to
kill off potential threats, and to leverage these monopolies to control new
technologies which will define the future of computing, of the Internet,
and of how we conduct mu ....
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