MGSC05H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: The Wall Street Journal, Consent Decree
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If you were to ask customers who were to decide what innovations go to what pcs, the decision would be clear -> they would want to leave it up to the marketplace with competition. The doj is trying to force microsoft to remove the internet explorer from windows for the benefit of other competitors that are looking to compete with microsoft by preventing microsoft from enhancing its products. 3 years, microsoft signed a consent decree that allo(cid:449)ed microsoft to de(cid:448)elop (cid:862)integrated soft(cid:449)are products(cid:863) A pc manufacturer gets a license from microsoft to ship the os with ie -> installing windows 95 does not prevent other competing browsers to be installed with microsoft but they do not allow modifying. Microsoft argued that ie was more than just a browser and was complimentary to the os interface.
