microsoft case

There has been a great deal of focus on anti-trust legislation of late, as it involves most famously, Microsoft. Through the media's attention to this particular company and the conditions of legislature, we have come to hear a great deal more about anti-trust legislature. The purpose of this paper is to analyze antitrust laws in relation to the well-known Microsoft antitrust case. The thesis of this paper is that Microsoft is a monopoly in the …

…products and services. This will give Microsoft enormous advantage in positioning its own products in electronic commerce and let it play kingmaker for other businesses. Fortunately, the U.S. has antitrust law to protect businesses and consumers, to insure that every participant plays fairly in the market. Any violation! of the law must be prosecuted. Antitrust regulation is indispensable in a free society, if free market and open competition are to be maintained. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**