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The Unethical Business Practices of Microsoft

Source: http://www.ciol.com/ciol/news/26147/the-unethical-business-practices-microsoft

With its aggressive but often monopolistic policy, Microsoft has been able to successfully wipe out competition from some of it's serious contenders, says RPG Cables, Chief Manager-IT, B.K.Khaitan.

Microsoft Corp through its destructive marketing policy has been able to successfully wipe out competition from some of it’s serious contenders. For example, Netscape navigator, a very good search engine and widely used in the last decade, was unfortunately not a freeware.

Microsoft as a counter move released Internet explorer and started giving it free along with Windows operating system. This strategy killed the market for Netscape although Netscape was a better search engine than Internet explorer.

Hotmail, of our own Sabeer Bhatia, was gaining popularity as freeware email and was posing a serious challenge to Microsoft. To overcome this, Microsoft purchased the rights of Hotmail. Sabeer Bhatia settled with millions of dollars from Microsoft and surrendered the rights of Hotmail to Microsoft.

Macintosh had an operating system, which was very user friendly, but due to non-aggressive marketing policy of the company, the product was somehow not popular. Microsoft seized this opportunity, developed it’s own brand of operating system WIN-95 based entirely on Macintosh operating system and successfully marketed it across the globe.

Lotus 123 developed by Lotus Corp was extremely popular as electronic spreadsheet. Microsoft developed MS-Excel in a new avatar and killed Lotus 123 in the process. Microsoft has systematically killed all competitors over a period of time and is currently ruling the international market.

Finding itself unchallenged in the market, Microsoft is dictating the price of it’s products. Since there is virtually no competition, individuals and companies have no other option but to pay very high...