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Microsoft's Windows operating system and Office applications suite still utterly rule their markets.
Responding to questions about the slower-than-expected growth in applications, Mr. Ellison said the sales cycle of the applications suite was longer than for the database software and required approval from a higher level of management.
Although Apple's new presentation program, known as Keynote, will directly challenge PowerPoint, Mr. Jobs was coy about whether he was planning a direct assault on other parts of Microsoft's second monopoly, the dominant Office applications suite.
This is a must for the firm, since its applications suite has not taken off as planned and its bread-and-butter business of corporate databases is also maturing.
"Microsoft has a 93 to 94percentt monopoly over the operating system market, a 96percentt share of the office applications suite business and an 88percentt share of the browser market," said Ed Black, president of the Computer and Communications Industry Association, and an opponent of Microsoft.
Even more potentially unsettling for Apple, Microsoft's Macintosh Office development team said last week that the group, which has just released the Office 2001 applications suite designed for Apple's current operating system, had only recently started work on a OS X version.
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