THE STATES SIDE
Microsoft has clearly mistreated monopoly influence in its usage of its operating system. The fact that Microsoft bundled Internet Explorer with its Windows system without a doubt gave them an advantage over the web browser market; given that many businesses, households and even PDA computers have the Window Software. Microsoft made other web browsers slow even over a modem. To give them a way out of monopolistic illegal practices they included other web browser logos on the windows Operating System, but these other browsers would not work properly or became slow to use. “They manipulated and altered its application programming interfaces (APIs) to favor Internet Explorer over third party web browsers’. (Wikipedia.org)
Microsoft could have made Internet Explorer a separate entity and did not need to be tied into Windows. Take the separate version for Mac OS for example, Mac OS works off a different operating system, but also has access to Internet Explorer. It has also been said that Microsoft also required PC manufacturers to contain its internet browser as an element of setting up the Windows System. Microsoft stated that Internet Explorer was free to all windows users, however we can only assume that the price of Windows Operating System was overly priced or prices were kept high to cover the cost of development and marketing for Internet Explorer; so in the end it may not have been free at all. (Wikipedia.org)
During questioning, guilty was the only characteristic of Microsoft. When Chairman Bill Gates was giving his testimony he was vague and nonresponsive claiming he did not recall any of the answers to what he was asked. A witness whom worked for Intel recalled Senior Vice President of Microsoft as having stated the intention to “extinguish and smother” rival Netscape Communication Corporation and that Microsoft would “cut off