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Re: Microsoft and Antitrust: Retro-Regulators Threaten Tech Future

david — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 06:55:00 -0000

microsoft needs to wake up.google has captured half the market by now.
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Re: Microsoft and Antitrust: Retro-Regulators Threaten Tech Future

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Re: Microsoft and Antitrust: Retro-Regulators Threaten Tech Future

lippard — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:20:30 -0000

While Google and Apple are clearly growing faster than Microsoft, I don't think that alone is sufficient to put them in the lead. Microsoft clearly still dominates the market for personal computer operating systems and office applications in the corporate world.

The Rally's hamburger fast food chain used to call itself the "fastest growing fast food chain" in the U.S.--but that was only in percentage terms. It's easy for the smaller guy to have faster growth in percentage terms than the big guy.

Microsoft: market cap $268.89B, annual revenue $51B
Google: market cap $163.87B, annual revenue $10.6B
Apple: market cap $120.97B, annual revenue $19B

Re: Microsoft and Antitrust: Retro-Regulators Threaten Tech Future

Steve_R — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 14:52:33 -0000

Sonia, you may be correct -in this case - to assert that regulators may be chilling technological progress. What I find troubling is the lack of acknowledgment that private industry is doing what it can to stifle technological progress as a means of achieving monopolistic status by frustrating competition. The Electronic Frontier Foundation reported on Sept. 11, 2007 that "In an important ruling today, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals blocked satellite television provider DirecTV's heavy-handed legal tactics and protected security and computer science research into satellite and smart card technology after hearing argument from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)." I hope that when private industry attempts to frustrate technological progress that this will be disclosed too and not overlooked.