One Defense Microsoft Can Use to Argue That It Does

question 62

Multiple Choice

One defense Microsoft can use to argue that it does not have monopoly power in the market for operating systems,is to show that

• A) demand for operating systems is highly elastic.
• B) many other commodities have higher income elasticities of demand than operating systems.
• C) the cross elasticity of demand between Microsoft's operating system and other operating systems is large and positive.
• D) many of its competitors' products are complements for its service.

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