Hatch Hearings: Now What?
News Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy and Netscape Communications Chairman Jim Barksdale accused Microsoft of predatory practices. However, monopolies are subject to more strict regulation than non-monopolies to prevent them from predatory pricing...
[March 4, 1998, 8:51]
The Legacy Of Microsoft's 1994 Consent Decree
News In the summer of 1994, with the threat of an antitrust charge looming, Microsoft agreed to settle charges that it was engaged in predatory business practices in its dealings with computer makers. Product tying, technological tying, predatory...
[July 13, 2004, 16:00]
Microsoft Starts Software Fraud Campaign
Talkback I wonder why Microsoft is the most targetted software, the price of their products is too high, they are a predatory monopoly, their business practices are/have been questionable and they have somewhat overzealous licence conditions.
[February 19, 2006, 22:38]
They Would Wouldn't They?
Talkback Since the Bush Administration came to power, there has been a distinct lack of interest by the US Depapartment of Justice in kerbing Microsoft's, (or others) abusive monopoly and predatory behaviour, and Microsoft's abusive practices have...
[October 1, 2007, 17:19]
Media Player Row: Will The EU Read Between The Lines?
News Last month, claiming that Microsoft's predatory practices resulted in substantial loss of revenue, the company slapped Microsoft with a $1bn lawsuit. While Microsoft's antitrust dust is settling in the United States, EU regulators are still in a...
[January 7, 2004, 11:45]
US Report: Go After Microsoft - SPA
News There's no question Microsoft has to go beyond Windows 95 but those practices they've engaged in with NT are predatory," SPA President Ken Wasch said. In a document approved by the trade group's board this morning, the SPA said Microsoft's...
[June 22, 1998, 9:37]
Appeals Court Reaffirms Microsoft Settlement
News Our high-tech economy will not reach its full potential unless regulators and the courts are willing to deal with Microsoft and its predatory practices. In that case -- the biggest hurdle remaining among the company's many legal battles over its...
[July 1, 2004, 9:30]
Microsoft Hit With Another Antitrust Suit
News Our case is based on many of the same types of Microsoft conduct that have already (been) declared to be illegal -- such as failure to disclose interface information and imposing restrictions on PC makers -- as well as a broad course of additional...
[December 19, 2003, 7:50]
DoJ To Seek Charges Against Microsoft
News In the settlement talks, some people in the government camp are expected to press for a restructuring of the company to prevent a recurrence of the predatory acts found by Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson in his Nov.preliminary ruling in the case.
[December 6, 1999, 14:35]
US Exclusive: Caldera CEO Says Microsoft Threatening PC Makers
News Claims that Linux may be the victim of predatory tactics take on special meaning in light of the ongoing federal and state investigation of Microsoft's business practices. Last year, the company filed suit against its larger rival in a separate...
[April 28, 1998, 9:01]
A Year Ago: Sun And Netscape Lambast Microsoft
News As one example of what Sun and Netscape characterise as Microsoft's "exclusionary and predatory" practices, Katz cited DOJ documents referring to an internal Microsoft e-mail in which executives at the Redmond, Wash.company said they had already...
[March 2, 1999, 7:04]
McNealy: MS Must Be Scrutinised
News McNealy said he won't ask for more regulation, but he warned that Microsoft (MSFT) must be scrutinised for predatory and exclusionary practices. Sun Microsystems Inc. SUNW) CEO Scott McNealy asked for strong enforcement of existing antitrust laws...
[March 3, 1998, 15:01]
Microsoft On Trial: Rally Time For Microsoft?
News Through evidence such as internal Microsoft e-mail and solid witnesses, including Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale, government lawyers say they have succeeded in demonstrating a pattern of predatory practices that proves Microsoft has protected its...
[December 21, 1998, 10:13]
Google Ranking Case Dismissed
News The lawsuit claimed that by lowering KinderStart's site in its PageRank system, Google had engaged in "pervasive monopolistic practices" that led to the denial of the site's free-speech rights, prevention and destruction of competition, and...
[July 14, 2006, 9:10]
Tech Companies Silent On Microsoft Ruling
News Collaboration and sharing is a better model than locking in (customers) and predatory practices. High-tech industry lobbyists were quick to cheer or jeer an appellate court's decision to overturn the order to split Microsoft in two, but the...
[June 29, 2001, 9:43]
Back To Court For Microsoft And DoJ
News Jackson, who has pushed the sides to reach an out-of-court settlement, ruled in a decision last autumn that he essentially agreed with all of the government's allegations against Microsoft being a predatory monopoly.
[February 22, 2000, 9:37]
Consumers: Don't Hold Your Breath
News But if the antitrust action results in Microsoft becoming less predatory and more innovative, consumers could see benefits in the future from a more competitive industry, analysts said Sunday. Brown thinks Microsoft has already changed its...
[November 8, 1999, 9:38]
BT Accused Of 'anti-competitive Behaviour'
News We believe the matter to be so critical that OFTEL should consider drawing on its powers under the Competition Act to conduct an immediate cross subsidy/predatory pricing investigation in order to prevent BT securing an unassailable position in...
[April 3, 2002, 14:48]
Microsoft-EU Antitrust Decision Looms
News And while Intel chips are in a majority of all computers, it has a rival, AMD, and allegations that the chipmaker engaged in predatory pricing in Europe are far different from the issue Microsoft is facing over bundling its Media Player and the...
[September 17, 2007, 8:15]
