I was not quite active during the period when Microsoft ruled (1990-2000 ). But then the trend has been slowly changing , with the popularity of other open source technologies , and better options and not to forget how big a flop Vista was . Microsoft played a monopoly in the market for quite some time . They went from the OS to the browser and so on , ................... Now there seems to be another player in the market ( even stronger a contender ).. GOOGLE ... it has come the other way round( from the internet to the system ) and is trying its hand at everything ( considering the news that even an OS might be out soon ) , Google's approach has been very different from Microsoft's but the final destination is the same . But I seriously think a Google monopoly will do a lot more harm , given the amount of user related data it collects !... Is this all a <em>Monopoly </em>Cycle, one firm takes a monopoly and then another comes up to break that ?? First Microsoft and now Google .. what next ?
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