The U.S. government has alleged that Microsoft holds monopoly power in the market for personal computer operating systems and has abused that power in order to preserve its influence and extend it to other businesses. One word that stands out in these allegations is monopoly.

A monopoly is being the only business that offers a certain product. Pricing regulations usually fall hand in hand with monopolies. A monopolistic company can not assign a price to a product that is outlandis

Our next area of law to jump into is The Clayton Act. It was enacted in 1914 as an amendment to the Sherman Antitrust Act. It prohibits price-fixing conspiracies in interstate commerce. The Clayton Act was amended in 1950 to state that "no corporation shall acquire the whole or part of the assets of another corporation, where the effect of such an acquisition may be substantially to lessen competition, or to tend to create a monopoly." The Clayton Act may not directly impact this case but, will be mentioned time and again with this case because of the innuendoes of Microsoft trying to become a monopoly.

This article was dated March 30,1999. I have yet to date heard of the verdict in this case. I believe that Microsoft will have to give in sometime soon. The government is pressing them and has levied a million dollar a day fine against Microsoft. This fine may

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