-Question 1: Microsoft Corporation Versus United Sates Antitrust Law case Introduction Bill Gates starts from scratch and has no government funding, he had developed "Windows" operating system and internet applications. He creates an extraordinary software empire. The computer from the luxury with expensive price has become an indispensable tool in the homes of ordinary people at present. However, in 1999, the United States Federal Government prosecuted Microsoft for violation of the monopoly law. As an IT industry leaders, this case was unprecedentedly complicated. ( Anon, 2015) Microsoft which is the largest listed company in the world, the market value of shares was over 500 billion US dollars. It is sued for bundling its Internet browsers with operating systems and preventing potential competitors entering the …show more content…
(Vallet G, 2017) According to The Wall Street Journal's investigation report in December 1999, Microsoft has become the top in the American mind which is the successful high-tech enterprises. 2: Stan J.Liebowiz, an American scholar, a professor at the Department of Economics at the University of Texas. He thought Microsoft is not the traditional monopoly bully who has monopolistic status and take the opportunity to raise prices, sell inferior products and hurt consumers. On the contrary, in the area of software applications such as word processing and spreadsheets where Microsoft has a monopoly, there has been a strange phenomenon, such as functions have been continuously improved and prices have been reduced. 3: According to the anti-monopoly law, if a company in the United States occupies more than 70% of the market share of a product, it is considered to have a market monopoly, but if a company acquires a natural monopoly in the market due to some of the technical innovation and opportunity for luck, status is not illegal.