Bell Labs had a monopoly, as part of Bell Telephone, which was (AFAIK) granted exclusive right to provide telephone service. Microsoft does not. AFAIK, Xerox never has had a monopoly.
Having a large amount of marketshare != a monopoly.
Lots of people insist on using the term for both things. I don't know why. But even if you are one of those people, surely you will see there there is a fundamental difference between those two things.
For the sake of this discussion, it would be necessary to differentiate between them.
And that conviction was immoral and improper. Microsoft did not have a monopoly in the proper sense of the term, only in the sense used by anti-business people who want to twist the term to suit their own purpose.
Having a large amount of marketshare != a monopoly.
Lots of people insist on using the term for both things. I don't know why. But even if you are one of those people, surely you will see there there is a fundamental difference between those two things.
For the sake of this discussion, it would be necessary to differentiate between them.