District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson said in June that Microsoft should be split in two as its sentence for abusing its dominant position in the personal computer operating system market.

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Look what happened to IBM when it ceded the personal computer operating system to Microsoft and the processors to Intel, or when Microsoft allowed Apple and Google to dominate the mobile operating platform.

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This software colossus's domination of the personal computer's operating-system market is complete.

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And again, none of them holds out the prospect of domination in the way that the operating system dominates the personal computer.

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MS-DOS and later Windows as the dominant operating system for the personal computer thanks to its own pioneering efforts, the brilliance of its business strategy and the network effects that give a single standard inherent advantages over any rivals.

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The military charge sheet against al Halabi lists more than 30 violations, which include connecting his personal laptop computer to the military's computer system to download classified documents.

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The big break came in 1980 when an agreement was signed to provide the operating system that became known as MS-DOS, for IBM's new personal computer.

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