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1,477 wordsIt wouldn't be fair to talk about the Windows Operating System without first looking at the origins of the company that developed it. William H. Gates III and Paul Allen founded Microsoft in 1975. They were both only 19 years old. In 1980 International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) chose Microsoft to write the operating system for the IBM PC personal computer, to be introduced the following year. As part of its contract with IBM, Microsoft was permitted to license the operating system to o...
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1,674 words... p any competitor product they wish, but they are not allowed to disable features of our products, (Just Dept v MS 2). Second, the government is contending that the terms of Microsoft's non-disclosure agreements are an obstacle in the way of their attempts to gather evidence for their investigation. Microsoft says that their non-disclosure agreements are no different than those of most companies within the software industry, as well as outside it. Finally, there is the matter of the competiti...
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1,030 wordsThe potential breakup of the Microsoft Corporation is presently one of the most consuming issues in our society. The government has declared Microsoft a monopoly, and could possibly be broken up into three pieces. This has come as a shock to most everyone, because Microsoft Windows is usually the first thing that pops up on almost everyones computer when you first turn it on. The government says that Microsoft has violated the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, which is designed to protect customers...
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800 wordsIn 1890, Congress passed the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. Since then there has been very few companies that have violated this act. In 1911 it was used it to break J. D. Rockefellers Standard Oil trust in to 30 different competing companies. Then in 1982 AT&Ts monopoly was broken up in what has been called the biggest anti-trust case to date. Now Microsoft has been charged and found guilty. (America's History Of Lack of trust in Microsoft started in 1991 when the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) began ...
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1,527 wordsMicrosoft's Success In 1975 Bill Gates and Paul Allen created a company called Microsoft. A little more than twenty years later, Microsoft is a leader in the field of computer programming. Gates and Allen both had big plans for their fledgling company and came up with different ways of managing people and products in order to create possibly the most effective and versatile workforce of any corporation in existence. To study Microsoft's way of doing business is to look at the company from many a...
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1,155 wordsSince 1990, a battle has raged in United States courts between the United States government and the Microsoft Corporation headed by Bill Gates. What is at stake is money. The federal government maintains that Microsoft's monopolistic practices are harmful to United States citizens, creating higher prices and potentially downgrading software quality, and should therefore be stopped, while Microsoft and its supporters claim that they are not breaking any laws, and are just doing good business. The...
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1,192 words-- Bill Gates (The richest man in the world) Bibliography William (Bill) H. Gates is chairman and chief software architect of Microsoft Corporation, the worldwide leader in software, services and Internet technologies for personal and business computing. Microsoft had revenues of US$ 32. 19 billion for the fiscal year ending June 2002, and employs more than 50, 000 people in 72 countries and regions. Born on Oct. 28, 1955, Gates grew up in Seattle with his two sisters. Their father, William H. G...
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1,769 wordsMicrosoft's Strategic Position Microsoft executives are examining the company's marketing strategy for enterprise products to ensure that they address customer needs in changing computer environments. The company's Windows XP operating system mirrors its focus on reliability and scalability and serves as the foundation for Microsoft's electronic commerce and knowledge management initiatives. The focus on software product development that brought the company so much success in the past is being r...
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1,838 words... sell NT servers using Intel chips, it is heavily promoting the fact that NT also runs on machines built with its own Alpha microprocessor. (Manes, 2003). Other computer companies are working hard to oppose Microsoft. "All major computer industry participants other than Digital and Compaq view Microsoft as a threat, " wrote Marc Schulman in a recent essay, published by Boston's Patricia Seybold Group, that examined the company's dominance. What follows is a look at the stop-Microsoft strategi...
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821 wordsMany have asked the question of whether Microsoft has turned into a monopoly of the high technology and software industry. This question is an easy one to answer, yes it is. Over the years, Microsoft has used its wealth and influence over the software industry to pull away from the competition by threatening competitors of withdrawing contracts and software deals. This is how Microsoft has grown to become a modern monopoly. Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson presided over the case and at the end of a...
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1,557 wordsGovernments Proposed Conduct Remedies Would Also Hurt Consumers and Innovation; Company Outlines Proposal to Speed Resolution of the Case As Well As More Extensive Remedy Procedures If Necessary REDMOND, Wash. May 10, 2000 Microsoft Corp. today urged U. S. District Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson to dismiss the governments unprecedented proposal to break up the company and outlined more appropriate remedies as well as a range of procedures designed to move the remedy phase forward as quickly...
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2,605 wordseconomic Microsoft And Government The economic system of the United States is modeled after the theory of capitalism. " Capitalism supports free enterprise private business operating without government regulation (Janda 22). " The United States does regulate private businesses. Sometimes special circumstances arise which threaten to weaken the overall economic stability of the country. In order to sufficiently deal with these situations, the United States government has passed many law...
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1,651 wordsAmericas century-old antitrust law is increasingly irrelevant to our modern global information technology market. This law is obsolete, in accordance to the current Microsoft situation, because in the past there wasnt technology as there is now. Recently the government has been accusing Microsoft as being a monopoly. " Techno-Optimists" claim that " efforts by government to promote competition by restraining high-tech firms that acquire market power will only stifle competition. &...
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1,713 wordsMicrosoft Antitrust Case Since 1998, the Microsoft Corporation has been struggling with an antitrust case against the United States Justice Department. They are being charged with violating aspects of the Sherman Act. This act prohibits companies from using their size and power as a monopoly to expand their positions and take hold of new markets. It is not illegal for a company to be a monopoly, but it is illegal for the company to use their size as an advantage over other companies (Lohr articl...
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3,766 wordsMicrosoft Microsoft Me MICROSOFT ME Microsoft is committed to the stress free PC for home users. People want a computer that does all the cool stuff and anything that works. For the first time, Microsoft Corporation will focus its development efforts on ways that people use their personal computers at home for fun, convenience, access to information, and communication. Microsoft Me is a new operating system that will be introduce on September 14, 2000 to 25 U. S. cities where visitors can test d...
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2,613 wordsRoll the dice and watch the hat bounce from one space to another, as the player assists the hat with the inevitable completion of it s ultimate voyage. The voyage of owning all of the properties, funds, real-estate, and strategically putting all the other players into bankruptcy to finish this challenge of becoming the winner, or monopolist. Bill Gates of the Microsoft Corporation has played this game, and he has played it well. The inevitable government intervention, that our modified market ec...
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1,322 wordsI believe that Microsoft has the best intensions for society, because they are constantly developing the software market into a more competitive and challenging industry. Microsoft s success as a company is partly due to its commitment to making the best product possible and strategic business practices. The first reason Microsoft is not a monopoly is because of the standardized quality of its OS. Second is the intelligent business practices Microsoft has engaged in through many of its business ...
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2,569 wordsNAME: English 1 HON Project Due March 12, 1998 THE DIGITAL WORLD OF BILL GATES He is the richest man in the world. His former friends, who are now his enemies, hate to even hear his name. His company wants to be with you in your office, your car, and even your kitchen. Bill Gates. But there is a lot more to Bill Gates than being the richest man in the world. He is one of the people responsible for setting off the computer revolution, and by doing that, he has changed the way mankind lives foreve...
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8,584 words: Beginning of Install : Starting Install: Current Date/Time (U. S. Local Time): 02 / 05 / 2001: 14: 21: 12 Localization: Machine Locale set to: English United States. 1252 Command Line Parameters: Suppress Reboot: 0 Quiet/Silent Mode: 1 Logging Level: 3 Windows Directory: D: WINNT Progress: Loading Resource Library. Progress: Parsing INI File. Ini Section: General: ProductName = Microsoft Data Access Components 2. 5: Product Url = web: ProductVersionKey = SOFTWAREMicrosoftDataAccess: ProductVer...
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