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click here. RE[9]: Comment by shmerl by Alfman on Sun 13th May
2012 00:15 UTC in reply to "RE[8]: Comment by shmerl" Member
since:   "As I said, one of the reasons Microsoft bailed out
Apple was to keep it alive as competition so that it would be
harder to argue that Microsoft had a monopoly. The DOJ got
around that by narrowing the market to exclude Macs (which ran
on PPC rather than x86 at the time)."  I'll believe you on the
first part, the fall of apple could have made things worse for
microsoft. But I don't think the second part has merit since
even including linux & apple desktops wouldn't have changed
microsoft's standing as a monopoly in the US.  "What 'existing
monopoly' is Microsoft using? WinRT cannot run any Windows x86
app. It is not compatible with the Windows x86 OS. What, is it
just hte name 'windows' that is the issue?"  Don't you think
microsoft's monopoly has given it unique abilities to influence
the ARM market? Focusing on just