Microsoft Antitrust Case
Since 1998, the Microsoft Corporation has been struggling with an antitrust case against the United States Justice Department. They are being charged with violating aspects of the Sherman Act. This act prohibits companies from using their size and power as a monopoly to expand their positions and take hold of new markets. It is not illegal for a company to be a monopoly, but it is illegal for the company to use their size as an advantage over other companies (Lohr article 1). I believe that the Microsoft Corporation is in violation of the Sherman Act and the United States government should take actions against the company to monitor their business transactions and prevent this from happening again. There are many examples of how the Microsoft Corporation used their size as an advantage over other companies to gain advantages in the software and computer market. Compaq is one of the largest computer producers in the country. They are the largest customers of the Microsoft Corporation. They buy most of their software from them to load on their computers for sale. Compaq considered loading the Netscape Navigator program as default instead of the Microsoft Internet Explorer. Netscape is Microsof
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Approximate Word count = 1780
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)
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