They're stats to die for: Market share of 90-plus percent.
Profit margins of 80 percent. Stocks that have created thousands of millionaires in the Seattle area alone.
But behind those figures is Microsoft Corp.'s biggest challenge for the future: Just what is a monopolist to do next?
As growth slows for Microsoft's main products, the Redmond-based software superpower has been aggressively expanding into new realms, investing billions in everything from selling video-game consoles to loaning small businesses money to buy its software.
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