Micropoly: Truth or Imagination?
ActiveWin | at | by Mike
"Oh my gosh, Microsoft? We're not going to sue Microsoft are we?"(i) Thomas Miller, the chairman of the antitrust committee of the attorney general, sentiment's spread throughout United States as the investigation into monopoly like behavior in Microsoft's corporate hierarchy quickly heated in 1997. The lawsuit filed would turn into what some called the trial of the century. The Microsoft trial, effecting technophile and technophobe alike, will challenge the Sherman Act, which for 110 years has kept corporate structures of US companies from becoming too aggressive. However, this law is outdated and does not apply to the software industry which Microsoft is prominent....