antitrust, high technology, and consumer welfare /
William H. Page and John E. Lopatka.
Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2007.
1 online resource (xiv, 347 pages) :
illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Origins -- Ideological sources of antimonopolization law -- Microsoft's predecessors : the public monopolization case -- Microsoft's beginnings : a post-Chicago convergence -- Decisions -- Chronology -- The liability decisions -- The remedial decisions -- The follow-on private litigation -- The European Commission decision -- Markets -- Two systems of belief about operating systems and middleware -- Network effects and related economic concepts -- Defining software markets -- Practices I : integration -- A preliminary skirmish -- Integration on trial -- Rethinking and redefining integration under Sherman Act standards -- Practices II : the market division proposal, exclusive contracts, and Java -- The market division proposal -- The exclusive contracts -- Java -- Remedies -- The goals of antitrust remedies -- Structural remedies -- Conduct remedies -- Damage remedies -- Aftermath.
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In 1998, the United States Department of Justice and state antitrust agencies charged that Microsoft was monopolizing the market for personal computer operating systems. More than ten years later, the case is still the defining antitrust litigation of our era. William H. Page and John E. Lopatka's The Microsoft Case contributes to the debate over the future of antitrust policy by examining the implications of the litigation from the perspective of consumer welfare. The authors trace the development of the case from its conceptual origins through the trial and the key decisions on both liabilit.
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Microsoft case.
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Microsoft Corporation-- Trials, litigation, etc.
Microsoft Corporation.
Antitrust law-- United States.
Computer software industry-- Law and legislation-- United States.