“Bill Gates’s problems have just got a lot worse.”
“While government regulators are hoping to break up his mighty
empire and expecting that a judge will rule in their favour in an
anti-trust case against Microsoft, a bunch of new software giants
has suddenly emerged to challenge his monopoly in computer
operating systems.”
“The vast wealth created by this stock-market surge, analysts
say, has given these companies the means to develop advanced
software and to mount a credible challenge to Microsoft’s desktop
monopoly.”