Microsoft is a dominant producer of operating system software for personal computers because

A. Linux and OS2 were unstable and vulnerable to frequent security failures.
B. the U.S. Justice Department has always encouraged Microsoft to dominate its market.
C. its Windows product was one of the first to appear in the market.
D. all of the above.


Answer: C

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