There is no direct assault, logically proceeding from issue to issue, with facts marshalled in a scholarly or quasi-legal fashion.

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And lower PC shipments is a direct assault on the bottom line at Microsoft, which rings the cash register with every PC sale.

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Google announced, in a blog post, that it would launch an operating system for personal computers, thus opening a direct assault on Microsoft, which has dominated the market for years.

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