ere seemingly put in place to preserve it. Today it involves rival technologies fighting for superiority. Cable TV competes with Digital Satellite TV, wireless communication competes with land-lines, Linux operating system is beginning to compete with Windows, and Internet Explorer is competing with Netscape Navigator. For technologies, standards are vital, without them mass markets are impossible. Sometimes these standards arise by voluntary agreements among firms; sometimes they result from the triumph of one or a few firms, but regardless they are needed and in place.
             Microsoft set the standard with the Windows operating system, which gave the computer field a degree of standardization, whether it needed it or not is another issue. This meant that applications programs, such as word processing and photo manipulation would not have to be written for a multitude of operating systems. When the software markets expand the writing of the programs became more profitable. Computer networks could be more easily constructed. People who learned computer skills at one company wouldn't lose them by moving to another job. The Windows operating system made this possible and as such developed and maintains a l
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