Focuses on the decision of the European Competition Commissioner Mario Monti on the U.S. Microsoft Corporation Sun complained to the Commission that Microsoft has set its components in a desktop operating system that only "talk" to the Microsoft operating system for servers. Sun further complained that Microsoft released information about its operating system for some partners, but not in the sun. The Commission has issued a formal complaint, but the decision is still pending Monty in this case. The basis for this decision, it contains information about the U.S. antitrust case against Microsoft, American and European competition law, and, as European lawmakers have dealt with the relationship between the components of IT in the past. "Hide
by Julio J. Rotemberg, Michelle Kalka Source: Harvard Business School 24 pages. Publication date: April 10, 2001. Prod. #: 701043-PDF-ENG
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