Microsoft and How It's a Monopoly
Since 1990, a battle has raged in United States courts between the United States
government and the Microsoft Corporation out of Redmond, Washington, headed by Bill
Gates. What is at stake is money. The federal government maintains that Microsoft’s
monopolistic practices are harmful to United States citizens, creating higher price and
potentially downgrading software quality, and should therefore be stopped. While
Microsoft and its supporter’s claims that they are not breaking any laws, and are just
doing good business.
Microsoft’s antitrust problems began for them in the early months of 1990, when
the Federal Trade Commission began investigating them for possible violations of the
Sherman and Clayton Antitrust Acts, which are designed to stop the formation of
monopolies. The investigation continued on for the next three years without resolve, until
Novell, maker of DR-DOS a competitor of Microsoft’s MS-DOS, filed a complaint with
the Competition Directorate of the European Commission in June of 1993. Doing this
stalled the investigations even more, until finally in August of 1993, the Federal Trade
Commission decided to hand the case over to the Department of Justice. The Department
of Justice moved quickly, with Anne K. Bingaman head of the Antitrust Division. The
case was finally ended on July 15, 1994, with Microsoft signing a consent to settlement.
The settlement focused on Microsoft’s selling practices with computer
manufacturers. Up until now, Microsoft would sell MS-DOS and Microsoft’s other
operating systems to original equipment manufacturers (OEM’s) at a 60% discount. Only
if OEM agreed to pay a royalty t...
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...ion of guilt. Other people might disagree
with me, and there might be a lot of allegations floating around from different companies,
but the fact of the matter is plain and simple. Microsoft has not been formerly charged
and found guilty of any illegal practices pertaining to them being a monopoly. I believe
that the government should stay out of the affairs of the economy, rather than get tangled
up in a mess. Even if the government did get involved, due to the extremely fast paced
nature of the computer industry.
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