Reference no: EM133380412

Question: On what basis did the court conclude that Microsoft was a monopoly (see "Market Share")?
The definition of a monopoly market or company is one who has exclusive possession or control of the supply of or trade in a commodity or service. When reading the first sentence in the market share of the finding of fact it read that Microsoft possesses dominant and increasing share of the world wide market for intel compatible PC operating system. At the end of this market share it stated that Microsoft share would Stand 80 percent above it competitor. It is fair to see that the court basis was based off of Microsoft control it industry by 80 percent or higher.

What was Microsoft's market share of Intel-compatible PC operating systems? Of all operating systems, including those of Apple computers?
Microsoft market share of intel-compatible PC operating system had been over 95% over the last couple of year according to the market share. And with the other competitor including apple Microsoft was still above 80 % for it shares.

What evidence did the court cite in claiming that Microsoft charged above-competitive prices (see "Microsoft's Pricing Behavior")?
one of the evidence that the court used against Microsoft too prove that they has monopoly power were the fact that Microsoft raised the praise of its OEMs for window 95 , which was the same price they charged for window 98 right before they release the updated version. So basically Microsoft has an new product and an old product selling for the same price.

Doing this assignment had taught me that sometime being too far ahead of your competitor isn't a good thing. Before reading the market share in this assignment, I would have thought that betting out your opponent and controlling most of the share for the industry was a good things. But I get that the more you control you have , the more you will raise the price of your product With isn't right. people have to realize that they didn't become successful by being greedy and asking for the Most money they can get for their product. They are successful for caring about their customer and providing them with the best product at the best prices for it.