Microsoft's monopoly became irrelevant 20 years ago and has disappeared in the last 10. Market share was 15% in 2017https://twitter.com/matthewstoller/status/856182881336647680 …
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Replying to @benedictevans
Microsoft's monopoly has now entirely disappeared and antitrust (despite all efforts) had very little to do with it.
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Replying to @benedictevans
This is just not true. You mean browsers, even there not true. Its browser mostly exists because it comes as default.
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Replying to @zeynep
Internet explorer has less than 10% of global use. Windows PCs were 15% of computer sales last year. The dominance has evaporated.
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Replying to @benedictevans @zeynep
Even on Windows PCs IE is no longer dominant. The monopoly, objectively, has ended.
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Replying to @benedictevans
IE only exists even in weakened form because of Windows—effectively still monopolistic. Also MS office. Still dominates despite inferiority.
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Replying to @zeynep @benedictevans
And it only was weakened because there was a massive case in the US (as well as action in Europe) on tying the browser to the OS.
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Replying to @matthewstoller @zeynep
That has nothing to do with the collapse of Windows share. And Chrome came a very long time after those cases.
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The deeper point you're missing - Microsoft's monopoly evaporated because the market changed. Anti-trust was entirely peripheral
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And the monopoly DID evaporate. It's gone.
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I'm just not seeing how its monopoly is gone especially in institutions. (Do you mean smartphones? Yes; it never transitioned there).
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Replying to @zeynep @matthewstoller
Last year 250 Windows PCs and 1.5bn smartphones were sold. Microsoft's dominance is gone.
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Replying to @benedictevans @matthewstoller
What percentage of software/OS spending at the enterprise/institution level (where the money is) would you say goes to MS Win/office?
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