Author: JT Smith
ComputerNewsDaily: “You may have read that the court overruled Jackson’s finding that
Microsoft illegally “tied” its browser to Windows. That’s true, but that
part of the ruling depends on some fine points in the legal standard for
“tying” under section 1 of the Sherman Act; the court states explicitly (p.
40) that “Microsoft’s exclusion of IE from the Add/Remove Programs
utility (in Windows 98) and its commingling of browser and operating
system code constitute … violation of section 2.”
Microsoft illegally “tied” its browser to Windows. That’s true, but that
part of the ruling depends on some fine points in the legal standard for
“tying” under section 1 of the Sherman Act; the court states explicitly (p.
40) that “Microsoft’s exclusion of IE from the Add/Remove Programs
utility (in Windows 98) and its commingling of browser and operating
system code constitute … violation of section 2.”
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