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This 4 page paper looks at the decision of Microsoft to offer a selection of different web browsers to the users of its Windows operating system, considering how and why this option has been offered in the context of the antitrust case in Europe.
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File: TS14_TEmicroEU.rtf
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Internet Explorer with the Windows operating system. The ability of Microsoft to use its operating software as a distribution channel for other software to stop the competition was certainly questionable.
Internet Explorer (IE), Microsofts web browsing interface was given away free of change, much to the dismay of other companies such as Netscape, where they could not compete as
they did not have access to this distribution network. This was also seen as an aggressive pricing policy as there had been over $100 million spent on the development of
this browser, and to give it away for free was seen as having only one purpose, to sabotage the competition, or this is what Sun and Netscape argued.
Microsoft saw that they were undertaking a marketing exercise and giving something back to the consumers, but was this a generous gesture, or a
well planned move that was possible due to the integrated nature of the company undertake in order to gain and dominate the market. It was certainly to the detriment of
other businesses, but this is the way businesses work, especially where there is a limited market, companies will seek to maximise their presence ion the market. One Microsoft themselves may
been arguing that despite spending such a large amount of development they were giving something back to their users, the courts and the competing companies disagreed, arguing that this was
a strategy that inevitably led to the domination of the market, and equated to unfair competition. In the article supplied by the student it is the reaction to the antitrust
cases brought in Europe. Other companies are being excluded from the distribution of the Internet browsers by the automatic inclusion of Internet Explorer in Windows. Many companies, such as Firefox
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