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Report: Microsoft overcharged by $10 billion
By Bloomberg News
Special to CNET News.com
January 8, 1999, 12:45 p.m. PT
Microsoft has overcharged consumers worldwide $10 billion even as
prices in the computer industry generally have declined, a report by the
Consumer Federation of America and other groups said.
Consumers are overcharged because Microsoft uses anti-competitive practices
to dominate the software market, said Mark Cooper, the federation's director of
research.
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The consumer groups, including the U.S. Public Interest Research Group and
Media Access Project, said today that from 1996 through 1998, Microsoft's
profits rose from 25 percent to 35 percent while the profits of all other computer
software remained at 6 percent.
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