Microsoft and the Government
On May 30, 1990, the Federal Trade Commission opened up an antitrust investigation on the Microsoft Corporation on charges that the company’s pricing policy pertaining to their Windows Operation System illegally thwarted competition and that there was hidden code in their operation system that hindered competitive applications to run. Microsoft continues to battle this attempt by the government to regulate to this day. The leading software company in the world provides the software for nearly half of the world’s websites. The government claim is that the software company continues to practice anti-competitive policies pertaining to the software licensing, thus a violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. Microsoft simply defends that their practices are all legal and that they are merely trying to innovate their products. Much has been said that if Microsoft controls the majority of the world’s network software, then they are potential controllers of global commerce and content on the Internet. A deep analysis will be done on the idea that is Microsoft Corporation a good monopoly or bad monopoly. The Microsoft Corporation is the current leader in software licensing not only in the United S
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Approximate Word count = 1460
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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