Posted by Felix Okoli on March 04, 2008 at 11:39:21:
Nigerian newspapers | ForumPosted by Felix Okoli on March 04, 2008 at 11:39:21:
Microsoft has for many decades now remained a global giant in the software company, providing the major operating system for about 70% of the world's desktop computers. Bill Gates was the American founder of this company right from his school days when he fell in love with programmming. The software company later grew and became more like a monopoly within a previously free market and it reached to an extent whereby software developers no longer engage in developing newer operating systems but rather develop brands within the already existing system in form of little user software programs. I call it little because it takes nothing from Microsoft's OS which even has some other softwares running on the system which are equally as competitive as newer programs, for instance, the Windows Media Player. Microsoft has made solid gains in the U.S.A. as well as in Europe and with a strengthening penetration into the fast developing economies of Asia such as China. Microsoft is BIG in the U.S. as well as in Europe with only very few competition such as Linux, a free OS with strong security features.
I guess it's because of this increasing annual profits from the sales and distribution of it's product mostly in Europe that has made a more conservative Europe feel it's losing out of what an American company is gaining in it's own ground. Or perhaps, the fact that a software company such as Microsoft is bigger than the EU that has pushed the EU to sanction the company with record fines over and over again, in millions of dollars, for inhibting software developers and charging software Devs unreasonably high fees for adapting ther programs to work with Microsoft's OS.
I would say, these fines on the American company by the European Union is unusually high and unjust but it seems Microsoft would settle anyway and the nemesis would be visited finally on the end users within the E.U. countries. I think the E.U. are aware of this and are not necessarily interested in ejecting Microsoft out of Europe to which the company is apparently hooked onto. But this may lead to higher operating costs within the E.U. and may lead the cmpany towards making reasonable profit for operating in such regions.
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Microsoft, the big giant and European economy
Posted by beyonce on April 10, 2008 at 18:57:42:
In Reply to: Microsoft, the big giant and European economy posted by Felix Okoli on March 04, 2008 at 11:39:21:
Posted by flow on April 27, 2008 at 13:04:18:
In Reply to: Microsoft, the big giant and European economy posted by
Felix Okoli on March 04, 2008 at 11:39:21:
Microsoft is bigger than the EU and will pay anyway
Posted by Easy
on June 12, 2008 at 11:07:25:
In Reply to: Microsoft, the big giant and European economy posted by
Felix Okoli on March 04, 2008 at 11:39:21:
i love the spirit within Microsoft
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