> Looking at it another way, what's the American competition for Microsoft? Computers: Apple and Google (Chromebooks are big in education). Server operating sy

> Looking at it another way, what's the American competition for Microsoft? Computers: Apple and Google (Chromebooks are big in education). Server operating systems: various flavors of Linux, but I guess basically IBM since they bought Red Hat. Cloud services: Amazon. Office software: Google. Databases: Oracle. Name some slice or segment of all of these companies and there’s usually (though not always) a direct American competitor worth naming in the same breath even though each has their own specialty and none compete in their totality with each other.