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Microsoft Anti-Trust Lawsuit
When the Department of Justice and 19 state Attorneys General filed antitrust suits against the Microsoft Corporation, the issue was not whether the company's industry-dominating Windows software operating system constituted a monopoly. With Windows serving as the command-and-control system for approximately 90 percent of all new personal computers, monopoly power is assumed, and there is nothing illegal about that.
The problem, according to Joel I. Klein, the Justice Department's antitrust chief, is that Microsoft is ''illegally leveraging its Windows monopoly'' in an attempt to squash competition and extend that monopoly to the market for Internet browser software for viewing the World Wide Web. The antitrust laws do not outlaw monopoly or the profits that flow from market power. The various versions of Microsoft's operating systems over the years, including the version, Windows 95, came to dominate the PC industry by legal means. Not only has the......

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