Does Microsoft Have Too Much Power?

Does Microsoft Have Too Much Power?


     Initially, there is nothing. Then, there is Bill Gates the founder of

Microsoft. Once a young, eager teenager running a small business of other

teenagers, now the richest man in the world controlling an operating system

practically every IBM compatible computer in the world uses. Computers are not

the only thing that Microsoft desires.  Now, they wish to influence the Internet.

With all the opportunities that it offers, many companies race to develop

software to get people and businesses on the Internet. Many dislike the power

Microsoft has come to possess and might gain more of, but is there anything

anybody can do? IBM has taken on the leader of software with an innovative new

operating system known as OS/2, but will they have a chance? Microsoft may be

unstoppable with its foundation, influence and power but is that enough to

practically own the computerized world as we know it?


     Usually, when we mention Microsoft in any form, we must have the

registered trademark symbol right  the word. The name is a well-known word in

virtually everyone's life. Although it is the super-empire it is today,

Microsoft was once a small software business ran by a young Bill Gates in a tiny

office. Consisting of a few young adults, they were not progressing as much as

they would like too. Their competitor, Digital Research, created the first

operating system, known as the CP/M-86 system. Though,  not glamorized, CP/M did

exist.  Their competitors had it a little worse, working out of their not so

tidy two story house, made up of a husband and wife. The massive change occurred

when a couple of IBM representatives showed up at the door of the CP/M founders

only to be turned away. Very rare to happen, since IBM was so highly respected

by programmers at the time. IBM is introduced to a young man named Bill Gates,

mistaken for an office helper but later strikes a serious offer for Microsoft

products. The one program that was unavailable at the time would be an operating

system soon to be called QDOS, a raw form of the Disk Operating System we know

today. When called upon by IBM, Bill Gates discovers that a man had created an

operating system to be pre-installed with the new IBM, scheduled to be released

in 1981. The operating system would be similar to the CP/M-86 system created by

Digital Research. The deal will make Bill Gates the wealthiest man in the United

States, with an estimated worth of over thirteen billion dollars. Today, The

Microsoft Cooperation is the worlds most lucrative software empire and yet still

has dreams for the future.


     Computers today are very popular among homeowners, businesses and

schools. Microsoft began to suffice to the population by creating user-friendly

programs such as the ever popular Windows. This graphical interface served as a

bridge to the comput
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