In the U.S. Microsoft Anti-Trust case (under the Clinton Admin.):
Justice Thomas Penfield Jackson decided Microsoft was a monopoly, and that they had "taken actions to crush threats to the monopoly." His ruling was that Microsoft be split into an operating system division and a division for everything else. Microsoft appealed and under the pro business Bush admin. the DOJ dropped it's case.
source:
Stross, Randall. The Microsoft Way: The Real Story of How the Company Outsmarts its Com-
petition. Addison-Wesley. 1996.
An excerpt from a 1998 washington post article:
On the witness stand was Steven McGeady, an Intel vice president called by the govern-
ment. He testified earlier this week that Microsoft Corp. had threatened to withhold
crucial technical support from Intel if the chipmaker did not stop developing software
that would compete with Microsoft's products. He also made the dramatic allegation
that a senior executive at Microsoft told him of an intent to "extinguish" rival Netscape
Communications Corp. and to "cut off Netscape's air supply."
source
In the European Union case Microsoft was found guilty and forced to pay a $613 Million Fine.
source
Trust me this has been proven, and know what you are talking about the next time you question me.
It's been proven that Microsoft has dominated the market not by creating a superior product, but by superior (often times unethical) business practices. Their goal is to do whatever it takes to dominate the market and this is a result of that. The fact of the matter is that many Microsoft products are infact lacking in areas that they didn't need to focus on in order to gain market superiority.
Competitors then need to target a different market and create a superior product in order to attempt to compete with Microsoft products. Do OS X and Linux, firefox and Opera seem to have less faults than they actually do because less people use them? Yes. Is that the only reason? No.
Don't simply dismiss non-microsoft products based on the fact that they don't control the majority of the market.
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Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/business/lon
Euro Union: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_Micro
In the U.S. Microsoft Anti-Trust case (under the Clinton Admin.):
Justice Thomas Penfield Jackson decided Microsoft was a monopoly, and that they had "taken actions to crush threats to the monopoly." His ruling was that Microsoft be split into an operating system division and a division for everything else. Microsoft appealed and under the pro business Bush admin. the DOJ dropped it's case.
source:
Stross, Randall. The Microsoft Way: The Real Story of How the Company Outsmarts its Com- petition. Addison-Wesley. 1996.
An excerpt from a 1998 washington post article:
On the witness stand was Steven McGeady, an Intel vice president called by the govern- ment. He testified earlier this week that Microsoft Corp. had threatened to withhold crucial technical support from Intel if the chipmaker did not stop developing software that would compete with Microsoft's products. He also made the dramatic allegation that a senior executive at Microsoft told him of an intent to "extinguish" rival Netscape Communications Corp. and to "cut off Netscape's air supply."
source
In the European Union case Microsoft was found guilty and forced to pay a $613 Million Fine.
source
Trust me this has been proven, and know what you are talking about the next time you question me.
It's been proven that Microsoft has dominated the market not by creating a superior product, but by superior (often times unethical) business practices. Their goal is to do whatever it takes to dominate the market and this is a result of that. The fact of the matter is that many Microsoft products are infact lacking in areas that they didn't need to focus on in order to gain market superiority. Competitors then need to target a different market and create a superior product in order to attempt to compete with Microsoft products. Do OS X and Linux, firefox and Opera seem to have less faults than they actually do because less people use them? Yes. Is that the only reason? No. Don't simply dismiss non-microsoft products based on the fact that they don't control the majority of the market.