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9 According to industry consultant Jerry Schneider, Microsoft’s installed base in March 1988 was only nine to twelve million. Dump 2? No chance, Not even, Computer Decisions, March 1988 at 50 (“between nine and twelve million DOS machines”). Often Sunshine Melt the program Burden, Business Week, April 18, 1988, at 72 (“Sun aims to coax a portion of the 12 million owners of PCs and clones into the UNIX camp.”) The more expansive measure taken by industry analysts at International Data Corp. indicated there were “approximately 18 million IBM PCs and compatibles worldwide,” in March 1988. IBM Desktop computer Orphans Wait To help you senior sizzle sign in A good thing, Computerworld, March 7, 1988, at 81. Therefore, even under the assumption that Microsoft’s operating system software had been installed in every IBM PC or compatible sold by 1988, Microsoft’s installed base at that time was no larger than eighteen million. Cf. Christopher O’Malley, The fresh Operating system, Personal Computing, October 1986, at 181 (“better than 95 percent [of then-existing] PC’s and compatibles use] Microsoft’s disk operating system.”).
10 Amy Cortese, Second End, il, Business Week, Aug. 1, 1994, at 24 C120 million MS-DOS customers (including 55 million Windows users)”). Pick including Operating system Review, Computer Reseller News, Aug. 22, 1994, at 223 (International Data Corporation table) (DOS and Windows installed base of 110.1 million).
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thirteen Amy Cortese, Business Times, Dec. 19, 1994, supra, within 35 (Old boyfriend. 5) (“Computer firms have been startled to discover that they shall be questioned in order to ingest a huge rate hike due to their usage of Screen 95 — up to $70 for every Desktop computer, compared to. around $thirty-five today.”).
14 Larry Campbell, Novell introducing SuperNOS Means, South China Morning Post, Sept. 20, 1994, at 1 (Ex. 37) (quoting Robert Frankenburg speech to Networld + InterOp ’94 conference). Select in addition to Bob Lewis, Ten Difficult Trend within the Measuring That are Bound to Spook Your, InfoWorld, Oct. 31, 1994, at 82 (“Let’s all admit that NextStep and QNX should have all of the market if there was any justice,” but Microsoft’s “Windows and DOS have more than 80 percent market share, so the wax is over! “).
15 Nor has the irony of this withdrawal been lost on the computer industry. As one observer noted: “July [of 1994] saw Microsoft in full agreement with the Justice Department. Microsoft agreed to withdraw the ‘per processor’ option that most PC suppliers found the cheapest way to buy DOS [in order to] encourage firms to offer alternatives to Microsoft’s operating systems. Shortly afterward, ent of DR-DOS.” Jack Schofield, Computing 94: Chip Conflicts and you will Gossip out-of Waits, Guardian, Dec. 29, 1994, at T14.
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16 Indeed, in 1990 Microsoft began to bundle its application products together into so-called “suites.” These mites are the fastest growing segment of the applications market, and Microsoft commands more than 85% of the suite market. See Personal Computing Software Worldwide, Dataquest, June 27, 1994, at 20 (selected pages at Ex. 11) (unit shipments of suites grew more than 350% in 1993); id. at 27 (Microsoft’s 1993 market share for suites is 85.4%); Doug VanKirk, Integrated Office Rooms, InfoWorld, Feb. 7, 1994, at 51 (“Microsoft owns a 90 percent share of the suite market . “).