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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ToySoldier who wrote (10582)	9/8/1998 2:25:00 PM
From: Bearded One	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

I believe MSFT's monopoly in this area is about 94% last I heard. From what I remember, a monopoly is when a company holds more than 84% of the marketshare of a specific product or service area. S Hah, I've been reading 70% makes you a monopoly. Let's look at it another way. You have a monopoly if the competition owns less than 30% (my #) or 16% (your #) of the marketshare. In this case, the competition owns about 6% of the marketshare, which makes them either 30/6=5 times less powerful in the market or 16/6=2.66 times less powerful in the market than what's needed to head off a monopoly. Good post--- maybe someone will get the point.