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Provide 1 page analysis of the business case. Then answer the below questions. Clearly separate each question and answer. Please continue to keep the total case length roughly 5 pages which includes the answering of these questions:
- What drove the early success of the IBM PC?
- What part did Bill Gates and Microsoft play in the early success of the IBM PC?
- What factors facilitated the emergence of the PC clone industry? How did the emergence of the clones change the economics of the PC industry? How did this benefit Microsoft?
- How did Microsoft translate its early success with MS-DOS into dominance in the PC software industry by the mid 1990s?
- Was the emergence of the World Wide Web a threat to Microsoft’s business? How did Microsoft turn this threat into an opportunity? What does this tell you about Microsoft at that time?
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