Microsoft Antitrust Case




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Microsoft A Monopoly?

In the late 1990s, as Microsoft1 was preparing to enter the new millennium, the company was fighting the anti-trust proceedings initiated against it by the US government. One of the main charges against Microsoft was that it was distributing its Internet browser software, Internet Explorer (IE), free of cost along with its Windows Operating System.

Microsoft was a late entrant into the Internet software market. Subsequently, it adopted aggressive marketing tactics to catch up with the early entrant, Netscape Communications. Netscape protested against Microsoft's move calling it an attempt to shut out other software that competed on a stand-alone basis......

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Another important charge against Microsoft was that it had modified Sun Microsystems' Java language in order to make it Windows compatible.

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