

Its ownership of the Microsoft Network(MSN) and its partnership with NBC, which has created MSNBC venture has given Microsoft strong distribution outlets for its emerging range of media content. Microsoft also has made many alliances with banks and its financial software, Money and Personal Investor, along with its financial server software, Microsoft is emerging as a key player in shaping the on-line financial transaction system of the future.
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Microsoft’s Internet Explorer desktop browser has overtaken Netscape’s software for navigating the Internet. Fifty three percent of 2.4 million US Professional developers use Microsoft’s visual basic program as their primary development language(1) Microsoft is playing an increasing role in their technical education, forging commercial partnerships with both commercial and academic training institutions.

Through a combination of tactics that many people would consider monopolistic Microsoft is now involved in almost every aspect of the computer and computer-related telecommunications markets and is emerging as a major player in Internet commerce and on-line media ventures.Īs of March 1997, 87% of all the software developers were actually developing the Windows bit 32 platform, which is the operating system for Microsoft.
