Is Microsoft monopoly? please give me the reasons why it is or why it's not please thank you!?

If I may be so bold, perhaps it's time I weigh in with an opinion.
Per the anti-trust suit filed against Rockerfeller's Standard Oil (Back in the days of Teddy Roosevelt), Microsoft was found (during the Clinton years) to NOT be in violation. Meaning it IS NOT a monopoly.
When Bill Gates and Scott Jobs were first starting out, they were (to a degree) friends. Each came up with a computer language independent of the other. Each approached IBM and were essentially laughed out of the room (computers back then were the size of a house) -- no one would EVER want a computer in their home. Yeah, right.
Gates went on an empire building program of building his own computers making them IBM compatable. That was a huge selling point. As things began to take off, he (his lawyers) insisted that any competer making companies that wanted Gates' language base in their computers sign a contract stating that no other operating system could be used. And it was THAT little maneuver that REALLY tied up the market. IBM, ACER, and later Gateway, etc.,ect., etc., all had signed on with Gates' Microsoft.
Jobs with his Comodore Vic 20 started strongly enough, but did not tie up the loose ends and quickly fell behind.
Eventally, Gate's bought major stock in Apple which only then added to the Gates strategy of quite literally cornering the market.
If you want to compet and beat Bill Gates, you need to know things like when those contracts expire -- allowing others to introduce their operating systems and you'd have to have a better system than what Gates offers. To date, Linux, Socrates and others just simply haven't been able to meet those criteria. Seems the whole world is using MS-DOS based systems.
There is little room, but if you want to compete, build a better mous trap.

Yes it is. Microsoft is the biggest monopoly when it comes to OS. The truth is Windows are so user friendly which makes 75% of computer to run on Microsoft Windows. Microsoft wants only its own products to be installed like Microsoft office and so on. So finally we end up having windows products in our system and forget about other good Open Source products.

Microsoft is not a monopoly because there are Mac OS and Linus operating systems for it to compete with although about 90% of computers use the Windows operating system.

It isn't, because Apple operates in the same market. Microsoft has competition for the same product sector and therefore cannot be a monopoly.

Is not a monopoly, that only happens when there is only one supplier of a good. In the case of MSFT there are other Operating Systems (MAC, linux, unix, etc) in the market. It just happens to be that Microsoft has a very significant percentage of the market share, but by definition is not a monopoly.

In the other hand, I believe Microsoft is a genius when it comes to marketing and everyday they basically smash competition with aggressive tactics.

So, by definition is not a monopoly but I'm pretty sure many will disagree with my opinion.

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