Does Microsoft Have Too Much Power?

Does Microsoft Have Too Much Power?



 Initially, there is nothing. Then, there is Bill Gates the founder of
Microsoft. Once a young, eager teenager running a small business of other
teenagers, now the richest man in the world controlling an operating system
practically every IBM compatible computer in the world uses. Computers are not
the only thing that Microsoft desires.  Now, they wish to influence the Internet.
With all the opportunities that it offers, many companies race to develop
software to get people and businesses on the Internet. Many dislike the power
Microsoft has come to possess and might gain more of, but is there anything
anybody can do? IBM has taken on the leader of software with an innovative new
operating system known as OS/2, but will they have a chance? Microsoft may be
unstoppable with its foundation, influence and power but is that enough to
practically own the computerized world as we know it?


 Usually, when we mention Microsoft in any form, we must have the
registered trademark symbol right  the word. The name is a well-known word in
virtually everyone's life. Although it is the super-empire it is today,
Microsoft was once a small software business ran by a young Bill Gates in a tiny
office. Consisting of a few young adults, they were not progressing as much as
they would like too. Their competitor, Digital Research, created the first
operating system, known as the CP/M-86 system. Though,  not glamorized, CP/M did
exist.  Their competitors had it a little worse, working out of their not so
tidy two story house, made up of a husband and wife. The massive change occurred
when a couple of IBM representatives showed up at the door ...

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