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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Replying to @benedictevans @matthewstoller
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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Replying to @zeynep @matthewstoller
Microsoft has not been a leader in enterprise software for a very very long time.
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MS Office is. Yes, MS is stagnant; it hasn't innovated maybe in decades. Still making tons of money. That's our convergent argument.
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