Microsoft Versus the Department of Justice

Microsoft and the Department of Justice can not discuss the importance of personal computers in today's high-tech super tempo fast world. The personal computer controls almost every aspect of our daily life. Regardless of size, companies have LAN, intranet, and high-speed WAN. We can not issue bills, inventory, invoices without the help of our personal computer. Stocks, bonds and goods are traded entirely through computers worldwide.

In 1998, the US Justice Department filed a lawsuit against the Antimonopoly Act against Microsoft. In a series of examples, the most shocking thing is the Microsoft Windows license policy. In other words, computer manufacturers preinstalled on any computer need to pay license fees to each computer regardless of Windows. Whether pre-installed complaints first proved that Microsoft achieved monopoly power in the PC operating system market. Then it details a lot of this abuse of power promised by Microsoft and seeks relief to contain it.

In 1993, the Ministry of Justice asked Microsoft about the possibility of anti-competitive behavior. In the settlement agreement, Microsoft agreed not to separate * products from Windows. However, with this solution, Microsoft can integrate functionality into the operating system. After that, discussion on whether the Internet Explorer browser is a standalone product or a Windows function becomes a big problem. USDOJ, 20 US states and the District of Columbia complained to Microsoft. Antitrust Attorney General Joel Klein filed a lawsuit against Thomas Jackson to act as chairman of the lawsuit. According to their colleagues in the legal and political world, Klein and Jackson are very intimate businesses. All these facts show that the facts and laws seem to outweigh the ideological bias in Microsoft's litigation.

In 1997, Netscape, Sun Microsystems, and Novell persuaded the Department of Justice to file an antitrust lawsuit claiming Microsoft monopolized the company. The problem is that the consumers of Microsoft products are satisfied, the software is cheap, the products are of high quality, and the technology industry has invested billions of dollars in research and development is. Now it may be difficult to imagine, but for some time there was nothing like free software. When Microsoft began adding audio software and Internet browsers to the Windows operating system, companies like Netscape have noticed that they are charging for the same products they themselves provided for free by Microsoft.