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Microsoft Co.: A Monopoly Paper

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Microsoft Co. is a monopoly. It is the biggest software organization in the world. It produces most of operating systems for all PCs: Windows, DOS. Microsoft also produces the main word processors and spreadsheets for both Windows and Macintosh operating systems. Microsoft has an 85% market share of the office suite market, which includes Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel and so on (Cs.stanford.edu, 2016). Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, comes out with an idea, hoping that everybody can own a PC at home. In 1981, Microsoft entered the OS market with MS DOS 1.0. Within a few years, Microsoft had over 90% of the OS market. IBM made a small machine (PC-Jr then PX-XT) that could use that system and was inexpensive for
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