Microsoft: A Monopoly

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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 much of our daily lives, in the future and the
present end quote. This statement states that the reason Microsoft is
trying to become a monopoly is for leverage and protection from other
companies.
Through the last ten years, Microsoft has been a multi- billion
dollar company. It is a proven fact that through the last couple of years,
Microsoft has been accounted for about ninety percent of computer software
sales, leaving the closest competitor, Macintosh, with about four percent
of software sales.
Although Bill Gates claims that Microsoft is not a monopoly, he
uses an amazing fact to support that they are not. He states that
Microsoft contains only four percent of all sales. Although in theory ...

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