Question

Identify and explain the steps by which Microsoft used its operating system to gain what critics called a monopoly of the entire computer software industry

Answer 1

"...Going a Paradigm up ahead of competitors"...

Step-by-step explanation:

according to Microsoft Mike C.E.O. Vice president at that time sitting on the bench of the Supreme Court of the United states of America, he decidedly answered their secret to overcome Lawsuits that ORACLE,APPLE,America online, Linux, Dell and Other companies had sued over Windows Microsoft (platforms) 97 was that he said to all the members of Congress in that astounding occasion saying:

STEP 1: If Windows computers were a monopoly they will cost 16 times more..

STEP 2: When they Lawsuit start having effect on those platforms (97) We will be working and presenting Windows 2000 so those will be obsolete.

Source; TIME magazine 1997

Answer 2

Microsoft was able to use its platforms and operational processes in order to ensure it had high visibility and awareness on the Windows platform, and became perhaps the primary, if not only, provider of documentation creating tools to customers for the first time.