Microsoft The Monopoly Is Microsoft a monopoly? There are a lot of operating systems on the market for you to choose from-Windows NT, OS2, Mac OS, Unix and some others. Our experiences with other operating systems have shown us that they are as good as Windows and are Windows-compatible. Howeve...

Microsoft Anti-Trust Case In 1890, Congress passed the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. Since then there has been very few companies that have violated this act. In 1911 it was used it to break J.D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil trust in to 30 different competing companies. Then in 1982 AT&T'...

Company/ Industry overview Dell Incorporated was founded in Round Rock Texas by Michael Dell in 1984 with just 1000 dollars and an innovative idea: sell computer systems directly to customers and illuminate the middle man. Today, Michael Dell is the longest tenured CEO in the computer industry. ...

The case against Microsoft is based not just on bad economics, but on a fundamental misunderstanding of government's decision-making role when it comes to market operations. This misunderstanding has led to an attack on one of the US's most successful firms. It is difficult to measure consum...

November 19, 2001 Why cAntitrust Microsoft Microsoft has been in the sights of the US Government for almost eleven years now. According to a Wired News timeline way back in 1990 the Federal Trade Commission began to investigate a possible conspiracy between IBM and Microsoft. After that Microsof...

The Microsoft Antitrust law suit. Recently one of the biggest corporations in the United States, Microsoft had to face several ultimatums from the government. The case against Microsoft was brought by the U.S. Department of Justice, as well as several state Attorneys General. Microsoft...

The current Microsoft antitrust case, still in progress as this review is being written, has been both hailed and condemned as the most important antitrust action of the coming century. Its potential significance has been compared to that of the Supreme Court's 1911 Standard Oil decision, which no...

Capitalism in America Capitalism is the complete separation of economy and state, similar to the separation of church and state. The theory of capitalism is based on the private ownership of the means of production, which would equal a completely uncontrolled and unregulated economy where al...