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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Replying to @benedictevans @zeynep
Google came precisely at the moment of those cases. And if you don't think Msft wouldn't have strangled Google you didn't follow the case.
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Who's the main competitor to Microsoft Word?
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Google docs. And it comes without the catastrophic MS Office security issues that would've put a non-monopoly out of business long time ago.
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Try asking anyone in finance, law or accounting about Gdocs being better than office and wait for laughter to stop.
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It is exactly because it is a monopoly why we don't have a better alternative for finance law and accounting where security is paramount.
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Replying to @zeynep @benedictevans and
Security crisis should have snuffed it. It doesn't because everyone is stuck there. (I understand why Gdocs mostly doesn't work for them).
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