Microsoft Corporation Versus United States Antitrust Law Case

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Microsoft Corporation Versus United Sates Antitrust Law case
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The case is based on the legal provision of Anti-trust law and observation of the court in
case of any breach to the rules mentioned under the law. The case study has been depended on
anti-trust law of United States. According to this, anti-trust law consists of certain legal
approaches made to regulate the conduct of the any organization or any business corporation so
that they can work for the benefit and interest of the consumers (Jones and Sufrin 2016). It is a
statutory provision that has been comprised in three different Acts such as Sherman Act 1890,
Clayton Act 1914 and Federal Trade Commission Act 1914. The main purpose of the Act is to
prohibit those practices that are restraining the trade practice. The Act is specifically against the
monopoly and monopolistic power. There are certain authorities who are responsible to take a
close vigil over the issue and they are empowered with the power to bring an action in the court
(Buxbaum 2018).
United States v. Microsoft Corporation 253 F.3d 34 (D.C. Cir. 2001) is a case that is
based on the provision s of the anti-trust law. It has been alleged by the plaintiff that Microsoft
Company has represented its monopolistic nature in case of using the web browser Internet
Explorer (Rubinfeld 2015). It has been stated in that case that Microsoft has provided an offer to
the windows users regarding the free installation of Internet explorer to catch the market and it
has been observed that other web browsers such as opera has to face various problems due to the
same. According to the contention made by the plaintiff in this case, the monopolistic nature of
the company has breached the provision comprised in section 1 and section 2 of the Sherman
Anti-trust Act 1890. Department of Justice in USA is conferred with the power to settle the
dispute arisen in the case. Considering the complaint that has been filed in this case, it has been
observed that Microsoft has violated the facts while operating the sales of the web browsers.
Windows is the most popular operating system in the world and it has been alleged that the