On the 18th May 1999, The anti-trust division of The US department of Justice (DOJ), followed by several US States, filed their second lawsuit against IT firm Microsoft Corp. This lawsuit accused the software giant of monopolising the market for PC operating

· Microsoft hobbled the innovation process;

systems and leveraging this monopoly power in markets for complimentary goods, including the market for it's web-browser 'Internet Explorer' and as a result ultimately hurting the market of which it operates.

Regardless of final outcome, the effects of The US vs. Microsoft have been tagged as being an incredibly important event in the modelling of the information revolution. The results of such a lawsuit will no doubt affect how the industry is managed in the future, and will define the value of Microsoft and the computer industry's rules of competition for years to come.

In December 1999, the ruling Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson issued a "findings of fact," that he found evident from the Microsoft case. Among other things he outlined that:

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