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The Microsoft case : antitrust, high technology, and consumer welfare / William H. Page and John E. Lopatka.
De Gruyter University of Chicago Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Page, William H. (William Hepburn), 1951-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Microsoft Corporation--Trials, litigation, etc.
- Microsoft Corporation.
- Antitrust law--United States.
- Antitrust law.
- Restraint of trade--United States.
- Restraint of trade.
- Computer software industry--Law and legislation--United States.
- Computer software industry.
- United States--Trials, litigation, etc.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (363 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In 1998, the United States Department of Justice and state antitrust agencies charged that Microsoft was monopolizing the market for personal computer operating systems. More than ten years later, the case is still the defining antitrust litigation of our era. William H. Page and John E. Lopatka's The Microsoft Case contributes to the debate over the future of antitrust policy by examining the implications of the litigation from the perspective of consumer welfare. The authors trace the development of the case from its conceptual origins through the tria
- Contents:
- Origins
- Ideological sources of antimonopolization law
- Microsoft's predecessors : the public monopolization case
- Microsoft's beginnings : a post-Chicago convergence
- Decisions
- Chronology
- The liability decisions
- The remedial decisions
- The follow-on private litigation
- The European Commission decision
- Markets
- Two systems of belief about operating systems and middleware
- Network effects and related economic concepts
- Defining software markets
- Practices I : integration
- A preliminary skirmish
- Integration on trial
- Rethinking and redefining integration under Sherman Act standards
- Practices II : the market division proposal, exclusive contracts, and Java
- The market division proposal
- The exclusive contracts
- Java
- Remedies
- The goals of antitrust remedies
- Structural remedies
- Conduct remedies
- Damage remedies.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-329) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612426773
- 9781282426771
- 128242677X
- 9780226644653
- 0226644650
- OCLC:
- 489202765
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