Windows Illegal?
If Microsoft has an illegal monopoly, does that mean that every copy of Windows sold helps to increase their disproportionate share of the market and would this then make it an illegal product?
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Ummmm..the government was WAY too harsh on Microsoft. But, they are not a monopoly. Why is Macintosh doing so well then?
It's' already been to court, they've taken care of it. But no, I doubt that the product would somehow become illegal.
maybe
"Products" are not illegal, in an antitrust sense. Business practices are.
And Microsoft doesn't have an "illegal monopoly," with Windows-- they were charged with product "tying"-- that is, using their disproportionate market share to leverage another product -- Internet Explorer--with anticompetitive effects.
Let's assume there's only two bottled water companies in the country. Nothing prevents them from selling bottled water to consumers. They are, however, forbidden from colluding together to agree on an artifically high price to charge all consumers for bottled water. Let's say company A is the larger of the two, and it wants to expand into the "permanent water bottle" market. So, it sells its water in a permanent (as opposed to a disposeable) bottle for only $.10 more than the regular product. Of course, since that's about the only place you can get bottled water, consumers are going to buy the permanent bottle, and the other permanent bottle manufacturers aren't going to have any more market share (as they cannot sell their bottles for $.10). Once that happens, then, the bottled water company can jack its prices way up without fear of competition. That's sort of like the product tie-in claims made against microsoft.
But, even if those practices are illegal, the fact that consumers may own a water bottle is not illegal, nor are the bottles themselves illegal.
Make sense?
No especially because mac has its own operating system..
It is such low quality it should be illegal! Boycott Microsoft!
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