The Microsoft Antitrust Cases2014

"For more than two decades, the U.S. Department of Justice, various states, the European Commission, and many private litigants pursued antitrust actions against the tech giant Microsoft. In investigating and prosecuting Microsoft, federal and state prosecutors were playing their traditional role of reining in a corporate power intent on eliminating competition. Seen from another perspective, however, the government's prosecution of Microsoft - in which it deployed the century-old Sherman Antitrust Act in the volatile and evolving global business environment of the digital era - was unprecedented. In this book, two experts on competition policy offer a comprehensive account of the multiple antitrust actions against Microsoft - from beginning to end - and an assessment of the effectiveness...