ANTITRUST CLAIMS

Antitrust Claims

Antitrust Claims

In 1996, Microsoft began giving away its Web browser, Internet Explorer, as well as free software and marketing assistance to use its products. This enabled the company to successfully overcome the marketing dominance of its archrival Netscape Communications in the mid-1990s. In addition, to gain supremacy in the software industry, the company repeatedly gave away software that other companies were selling, thus hurting other firms such as Stac, Symantec, Novell, and Oracle.

Microsoft has aggressively defended these giveaways, arguing that lower prices are good for consumers. Moreover, bundling several types of software packages into an affordable unit is driven ...