Word: rising
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Long-time Microsoft rivals saw the rise of the Internet and the browser as the perfect opportunity to defeat Gates's empire of Windows...
...problem is that when Microsoft is done driving its competitors out of business, innovation tends to stop and prices usually rise. Recent hikes in the price of Office and a surprise end to the company's concurrent licensing policy show what Microsoft will do when it gains hegemony over a market...
...explicit. He once quipped that on taking over the Fed in 1987, he learned "to mumble with great incoherence." Nor does he buy the wildest new-economy talk. He dismisses as "less than credible" any idea that "we need no longer be concerned about the risk that inflation can rise again." Greenspan is on guard, a renowned numbers cruncher who keeps tabs on the most obscure corners of the economy. Robin Leigh-Pemberton, former governor of the Bank of England, once remarked that at conferences Greenspan was likely to back up his predictions by citing such obscure data as vacuum...
...theory went like this: as the price of whiz-bang computers falls, demand will rise even faster. Looks like the theory was actually right. By autumn PC makers from Compaq to Hewlett-Packard to IBM were offering robust multimedia machines for less than $1,000--and nearly a third of all new PCs sold fell into that range...
...Rise of Joel Klein The Justice Department antitrust tyro's first shot across Microsoft's bow (over the bundling of Windows 95 and Internet Explorer) served notice to Silicon Valley that there's a new, tech-savvy sheriff in town. Next in his scope: the looming battle over Windows 98 and a closer look at microchip colossus Intel...