very few companies that have violated this act. In 1911 it was used it to break J.D.

Rockefeller's Standard Oil trust in to 30 different competing companies. Then in 1982

AT&T's monopoly was broken up in what has been called the biggest anti-trust case to

date. Now Microsoft has been charged and found guilty. ( "America's History Of

Lack of trust in Microsoft started in 1991 when the Federal Trade Commission

(FTC) began its investigations that Microsoft had monopolized the market on PC

operating systems. Their investigation continued until 1993 when the FTC came just two

votes short of filing a formal complaint against Microsoft for antitrust violations. At this

time the FTC closed its investigations but the Justice Department and European

Commission began independent searches. ( "Microsoft, DOJ timeline" 1999)

In 1994 Microsoft agreed to change their contracts with PC makers and got rid of

some restrictions on other software makers thus settling both the Justice Departmen

Justice Department. It allowed PC makers to remove or hide its Internet software on new

desktop. Microsoft also stated that they had no plans to let computer makers hide the

the 1994 agreement by requiring Internet Explorer to be installed on all PC's loaded with

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