Monopoly: A situation in which a single company owns all or nearly all of the market for a given type of product or service.
There is nothing implicit in the phrase "Monopoly" that suggests you didn't beat other people based on price, performance, features, customer service, etc...
Microsoft has had a monopoly on the OS and Office Productivity suites for quite a while, with the OS leading the Office Applications by a few years.
Of course, the pretty much ubiquitous presence of MacBooks around me, at coffee shops, and in the offices suggests that they may finally be starting to see some competition in the OS marketplace. And, if the kids these days are any indication, this trend has a pattern:
At the time that this article was written, what you're saying was not true. I struggle to see how your response makes any sense in the context of my comment or the article. Word was not dominant, WordPerfect was, Windows was not dominant, which was the point of the article. MS-DOS was dominant, but there were lots of DOS alternatives.
And when you say "Finally see some competition" you're just demonstrating exactly what the article is talking about, discussion that sounds knowledgeable of the history, but isn't.
Monopoly: A situation in which a single company owns all or nearly all of the market for a given type of product or service.
There is nothing implicit in the phrase "Monopoly" that suggests you didn't beat other people based on price, performance, features, customer service, etc...
Microsoft has had a monopoly on the OS and Office Productivity suites for quite a while, with the OS leading the Office Applications by a few years.
Of course, the pretty much ubiquitous presence of MacBooks around me, at coffee shops, and in the offices suggests that they may finally be starting to see some competition in the OS marketplace. And, if the kids these days are any indication, this trend has a pattern:
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I think Blodgett's article was reasonable, and certainly wouldn't refer to him as a Dope.