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Us Vs Microsoft Case Study

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The United States v. Microsoft Corporation was a case based off of the United States antitrust law. This law states that this corporation acted out of conduct and did not promote fair competition for the benefit of consumers. The Microsoft Corporation faced the issue of being blamed for becoming a monopoly and taking part in practices that violated the Sherman Antitrust
Act in both sections one and two. The plaintiffs claimed that Microsoft abused their power in regards to how they handled their web browser and operating system sales by bundling Microsoft with Internet Explorer. By doing this, Microsoft was present on all Windows users’ computers which was allegedly the reason why they won the browser wars. Plaintiffs claimed that this was
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