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Post-Gates: Microsoft, Competition and the Semantic Web

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ConsortiumInfo.org Standards Blog; By Andy Updegrove
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Microsoft achieved its dominance on the desktop in part by adding more and more features into Windows and Office - for free - that others wereselling as standalone products. The result was to not only wipe out their competitors, but innovation as well. Now Google is offering more and more services for free to help sell ads. Withe the shoe on the other foot, will it fall now to Microsoft to ensure that competition and innovation continues in these areas?

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