Microsoft is being hard pressed on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean it is currently entangled in a major lawsuit with the European commission. A lawsuit that seems all too familiar to the company, the charges seem uncannily similar to the ones brought against them by the United States a few years ago. CNN found that same uncanny resemblance between the European Commission lawsuit and the United States anti-trust lawsuit. “A number of analysts see similarities between the cases, although U.S. and EU laws differ on what is abuse of a dominant position. The one similarity

The problem however is not with Microsoft product itself it is the way the product is given to the buyer. The European Commission and the United States Anti-trust committee said that Microsoft should not put there software such as Microsoft media player and internet explorer already imbedded in the operating system software, but rather allow the user to browse through different products and choose one that best suits their personal needs. It seems to be unreasonable why a company that makes and puts out the operating system should not be allowed to put there own media or internet browsing software on there own operating system, but the European Commission and the United States anti-trust committee thought it to be illegal and a monopoly over the operating system market. How could a commission find something remotely even close to a monopoly in the Microsoft Corporation? The bottom line is they can’t and won’t because it isn’t; the criteria they are giving is ridiculous its as if they are saying Honda you can sell your car but you must allow the consumer to purchase the engine from another company. Perhaps this is a crude analogy, but the allegations against Microsoft are crude and the evidence and prosecution against them is scarce if visible to anyone at all.

Microsoft may have been a monopoly in the past perhaps in the early 90’s when they first came out with there windows 1995 operating system however, because they where really the only operating system of its kind, and

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