1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910788063303321

Autore

Gavil Andrew I. <1957->

Titolo

The Microsoft antitrust cases : competition policy for the twenty-first century / / Andrew I. Gavil and Harry First

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

0-262-31922-5

0-262-53330-8

0-262-31921-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (461 pages)

Disciplina

343.7307/21

Soggetti

Antitrust law - United States

Computer software industry - Law and legislation - United States

United States Trials, litigation, etc

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

The Microsoft antitrust cases -- Microsoft's early encounters with the U.S. antitrust system : the FTC investigation and the Antitrust Division's licensing case -- Bringing the Windows 95/98 monopolization case -- Concluding the Windows 95/98 case : appeal and settlement -- Private litigation in the United States -- Antitrust as a global enterprise -- The challenge of remedy -- In praise of institutional diversity -- Lessons from the Microsoft cases.

Sommario/riassunto

A comprehensive account of the decades-long, multiple antitrust actions against Microsoft and an assessment of the effectiveness of antitrust law in the digital age.