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Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows The Anti-Trust Case Against Microsoft Books related to The Anti-Trust Case AgainstMicrosoft The Anti-Trust Case Against Microsoft Since 1990, a battle has ragedin United States courts between the United States government and the Microsoft Corporation out of Redmond, Washington, headed by Bill Gates. What is at stake is money. The federal government maintains that Microsoft’s monopolistic practices are harmful to United States citizens, creating higher prices and potentially downgrading software quality, and should therefore be stopped, while Microsoft and its supporters claim that they are not breaking any laws, and are just doing good business. Microsoft’s antitrust problems began for them in the early months of 1990(Check 1), when the Federal Trade Commission began investigating them for possible violations of the Sherman and Clayton Antitrust Acts,(Maldoom 1) which are designed to stop the formation of monopolies. The investigation continued on for the next three years without resolve, until Novell, maker of DR-DOS, a competitor of Microsoft’s MS-DOS, filed a complaint with the Competition Directorate of the European Commission in June of 1993.(Maldoom 1) Doing this stalled the investigations even more, until finally in August of 1993, (Check 1)the Federal Trade Commission decided to hand the case over to microsoft, operating, one, people, standards, systems, system, netscape, windows, microsoft’s, internet, industry, should, government, computer, against, browser, standard, split, market, companies, case, out, number, manufacturers, create, complaint, company, been, another, until, think, software, signing, practices