Cybersource: The Cost of Software Monopoly: How Australian Consumers Lose

“Over the past decade, the personal computer industry has seen a
major reduction in competition in the operating system platform
market. A computer operating system platform is the software which
computer users learn to operate their computer with, the software
that independent software vendors develop applications for and the
software that third-party computer hardware developers create
compliant hardware for.

“Competition in the desktop computer operating system space is
practically non-existent, with one platform from a single supplier
commanding a very high proportion (over 95%) of the Australian
market. This single platform from a sole vendor is Microsoft
Windows…”

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