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Should the Justice Department consider "vaporware" an unfair practice? |
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Why hasn't a similar suit come about earlier? |
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What occupies the 10 percent of the market Microsoft doesn't control? |
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What innovations is Microsoft responsible for? |
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Is there less public resentment towards Microsoft than other monopolies? |
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Douglas Todd of Tucson, AZ asks:
Who are Microsoft's competitors? Who has the 10 percent of the PC market that Microsoft doesn't have?
Paul Gillin responds:
The two biggest are Apple and IBM, whose Macintosh and OS/2 operating
systems command about 6 percent altogether. Outside of that there are some very,
very specialized players who sell customized operating systems mainly into
vertical markets.
On the high end desktops - those generally used by scientists and engineers
- Unix and a freeware derivative called Linux still enjoy a healthy market
share compared to Microsoft's Windows NT.
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