Google,the Internet search leader, will now offer a free operating system for personal computers.
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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 operatingsystem market.
Look what happened to IBM when it ceded the personal computer operatingsystem to Microsoft and the processors to Intel, or when Microsoft allowed Apple and Google to dominate the mobile operating platform.
Long focused in personal computers on supplying operatingsystem software, while leaving the hardware side to others, a move into the hardware side of the business would be a bold shift in direction.