A monopoly can be broken up by the courts or by market forces. In the case of Mi

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A monopoly can be broken up by the courts or by market forces. In the case of Microsoft, only one has worked. In November 1999, a federal judge declared Microsoft a monopoly of computer operating systems. The original decision underwent appeals that continue to this day, making the ruling largely ineffective in breaking up the monopoly. But market forces have had more success. New technologies have made the market much more competitive, meaning Microsoft is rarely considered a monopoly anymore.
Refer to the Snapshot infographic on page 323 in Chapter 10.
Discussion Questions:
(1) About what percentage of the operating system market did Microsoft (PC) control in 2012? (2) Describe the demise of the Microsoft operating system monopoly using the following terms: competition, innovation, and market power? A monopoly can be broken up by the courts or by market forces. In the case of Microsoft, only one has worked. In November 1999, a federal judge declared Microsoft a monopoly of computer operating systems. The original decision underwent appeals that continue to this day, making the ruling largely ineffective in breaking up the monopoly. But market forces have had more success. New technologies have made the market much more competitive, meaning Microsoft is rarely considered a monopoly anymore.
Refer to the Snapshot infographic on page 323 in Chapter 10.
Discussion Questions:
(1) About what percentage of the operating system market did Microsoft (PC) control in 2012? (2) Describe the demise of the Microsoft operating system monopoly using the following terms: competition, innovation, and market power? A monopoly can be broken up by the courts or by market forces. In the case of Microsoft, only one has worked. In November 1999, a federal judge declared Microsoft a monopoly of computer operating systems. The original decision underwent appeals that continue to this day, making the ruling largely ineffective in breaking up the monopoly. But market forces have had more success. New technologies have made the market much more competitive, meaning Microsoft is rarely considered a monopoly anymore.
Refer to the Snapshot infographic on page 323 in Chapter 10.
Discussion Questions:
(1) About what percentage of the operating system market did Microsoft (PC) control in 2012? (2) Describe the demise of the Microsoft operating system monopoly using the following terms: competition, innovation, and market power?

Explanation / Answer

Microsoft is an multinational company based in america.It deals in manufacturing and selling of computer software, personal computers, and software products like Microsoft Windows operating systems, the Microsoft Office suite and the Internet Explorer etc which are considered best of microsoft.

Microsoft has started the business in 1980 with Unix, called Xenix but MS-DOS has lead the company's dominance. Gradually comapany was very succesfull and famous for its best quality and service.Its market has increased at a faster pace.

1-The percentage of the operating system market which Microsoft (PC) control in 2012 has plummeted to 20% from 95%. But it has enjoyed the complete monopoly of computing for 20 years and even today it has been a minority stake holder which is keeping behind Google’s 42% and Apple’s 24%.

2-Although it was has enjoyed monopoly for 20 years but gradually there was the demise of the Microsoft operating system monopoly because its compititors have increased which brought unique style design and technology like apple ,google etcMicrosoft lacked an innovation in comparison to its compititors like apple brought a range of products like apple i pad ,touch screen PC's ,cell phones etc. So the market power of microsoft started decreasing from 2004 and it was very down in 2012.So keeping in view all these factors like competition, innovation, and market power we can say that there was a demise of microsoft monopoly.

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