The Monopoly of Microsoft | American Genius

the genius of Bill Gates was to realize
that there were lots of computer makers
but somebody had to get them to write
for the same specifications there had to
be a standard operating system to
essentially tame the wild west of
personal computers Windows quickly takes
the computer business by storm by the
end of the 1980s 80% of the world’s
computers use Microsoft’s operating
systems making Bill Gates the world’s
youngest billionaire
but now Gates goes even further
Microsoft starts to bundle additional
programs with their operating systems
now anyone who buys a PC automatically
gets Microsoft spreadsheets word
processors and other programs whether
they want them or not Bill Gates is a
genius at assembling all the parts that
were needed to create the modern
computer software industry but he did it
in a way that got his rivals to call him
a monopolist a bully by the mid-90s
Microsoft’s aggressive tactics begin to
backfire
competitors accused the software giant
of monopolizing the industry the
bundling of the software led to the
Department of Justice investigating a
lot of claims that Microsoft’s business
practices were unfair they were in fact
suppressing innovation in a marketplace
it squelches third-party software
application development