Part 1 of Essay
Webster’s dictionary defines monopoly as ‘exclusive ownership through legal privilege, command of supply, or concerted action; exclusive possession or control; a commodity controlled by one party.’ In other words, through a variety of means, a producer may obtain sole or near sole control of a market. Through the control o ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... company Microsoft will be measured. Since the 1980’s, Microsoft has held a virtual stronghold on the operating system market. Beginning with MS-DOS (disk operating system), and culminating with Windows 95/98, Microsoft has become an integral part of society. Its software not only includes the Windows operating systems, but spreadsheets, word-processing programs, databases, and reference works. Microsoft programs run on a great percentage of all the computers in the world. We rely upon them to sort, send, and re ....