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 | | Indeed, the February 1, 1991, issue of Byte Magazine reports the two events in the same issue.74 Microsoft's applications competitors suffered delays of many months as they were forced to rewrite their own applications to make them perform under Windows as well as Microsoft's Excel, which had a head start in using OLE. |
 | | It was not until many months later that the first third-party implementation of OLE appeared on the market.75 Microsoft's unfair advantage obtained from prior knowledge of operating system functionality created a significant head start for its own applications on the new Windows platform. |
 | | And, according to this economic argument, there would be no point in Microsoft expending the resources to monopolize applications (level 5), since it would derive the same benefit by monopolizing the operating system (level 2). |
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