What is the Microsoft antitrust case all about?
See related stories: It’s business as usual here, says Microsoft Philippines Divided he stands: Interview with Bill Gates Settlement possibility still looms in Microsoft case TechnoBabble: Seoul revelations AN ANTITRUST case is filed to restrain trusts, monopolies or other combinations of big businesses and capital to promote and maintain market competition. Microsoft Corp. is in the middle of an antitrust case. Microsoft is the world’s largest company in terms of market value. The company from Redmond, Washington, provides the operating system for more than 90 percent of the world’s personal computers. An operating system is the basic software program which, when loaded into a PC, makes it work. Any software, such as Web browsers or word processors or computer games, needs to be compatible with the operating system for it to work. Aside from producing the operating system that runs almost all personal computers in the world, Microsoft also produces a range of software application prod
