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Microsoft Corp. and its officers have been the subject of numerous antitrust lawsuits since the early 1990s. The company has been sued by competitors such as Netscape and Sun Microsystems, and by federal and international governments. The premise of these suits is antitrust, or interfering with open competition. Two of these suits involve Media Player and Internet Explorer. These suits are explained, along with comments on the future of competition resulting from MS backlash. Bibliography lists 3 sources. jvMS2004.rtf
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such as Netscape and Sun Microsystems, and by federal and international governments. The premise of these suits is antitrust, or interfering with open competition. The claim is that Microsoft, by
embedding secondary programs within its operating system (OS) application, has implemented a program of market takeover (monopoly), which will not only ruin open competition, but by ridding itself of competitors,
and thereby destroying computer innovation. The student may want to note that these lawsuits are not frivolous. The programs that Microsoft has
embedded within its OS are unrelated to OS programs. Two of these are Internet Explorer and Media Player. One of the latest suits
filed against Microsoft has not been settled, but it has resulted in fines to Microsoft. This suit concerns the Media Player audio and visual software and was brought by the
European Union (EU), claiming noncompetition as the basis of embedding Media Player software within the OS. Microsoft has already been fined $611
million for this breach, but it must be noted that Microsoft is a $53 billion corporation that spends $7 billion a year on R&D alone. (Volgensten, 2004, 33). This has
had some critics saying that the fine isnt enough. In that respect, the EU case continues, but what critics are starting to
notice is that this will cost Microsoft much more in the long run. For example, the EU has established strong restrictions on how Microsoft develops and sells software within Europe.
This "fine was the highest levied against a company by the commission, but the practical implications of the ruling could take years to sort out as the case moves through
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