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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816211803321

Autore

Page William H (William Hepburn), <1951->

Titolo

The Microsoft case : antitrust, high technology, and consumer welfare / / William H. Page and John E. Lopatka

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2007

ISBN

1-282-42677-X

9786612426773

0-226-64465-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (363 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LopatkaJohn E

Disciplina

345.73/0268

Soggetti

Antitrust law - United States

Restraint of trade - 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

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-329) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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