Microsoft_Case

Microsoft Case Microsoft Case Part I: The government has been looking into Microsoft since 1990, when the Federal Trade Commission first started examining charges of monopolistic behavior. In 1995, Microsoft and the U.S. Justice Department reached a settlement that required the company to change a variety of business practices, including key aspects of its licensing agreements with personal computer makers (2). Microsoft has grown into an enormous and powerful corporation by a combination of aggressive business practices and having written operating systems (DOS and Windows) for personal computers. From operating systems it branched out into other software which has, along with the operating system, become something of an industry standard. These software products include, but are not limited to, the Microsoft Office Suite and Internet Explorer browser. One of the leading questions is if this is a “good” state of affairs: should one company so dominate computing and the Internet when we rely! so heavily upon it' The most recent lawsuit involves the Justice Department and 20 state attorneys general. They believe that Microsoft has used its monopoly in operating system software to protect its dominance and eliminate competitors. The government says that in the long run, consumers will be harmed, because microsoft, windows, operating, monopoly, market, company, software, government, internet, system, microsoft's, netscape, products, explorer, computer, business, oil, antitrust, should, new, justice, department, competition, standard, one, law, jackson, share, product, judge, customers, browser, against, systems, said, might