kes that impossible.Also MS counts on the fact that the IE once integrated in the OS users wouldnt stand the horror of downloading an additional browser like Netscape. Like the downloading process takes it time, especially with a slow modem and often there is a high rate of failures in downloading.Secondly MS has entered into exclusionary contracts with the largest and most importent Internet Access Providers and online services. These include such companies as America Online, CompuServe, Prodigy and MCI.These exclusionary contracts restrict consumerss access to non-MS browsers and they even restrict the Internet Access Providers ability to tell consumers that non-MS browsers exist even in the sense of that users arent able to download the Navigator.Otherwise the Internet Access Providers could easily promote and distribute browsers such as the Navigator.Thirdly MS has also extracted exclusionary contracts from Internet Content Providers. I really have no idea why Content Providers agreed to this but many of the agreements require that Content Providers design Web sites that cannot be viewed as well with the Navigator as with the IE. MS also requires that Content Providers adopt MS technologies that are not accessible by other browsers, meaning that lots of sites are less attractive wehn viewed with any other browser but the IE.These are all predatory tactics, they have no business justification other than the efficacy of coercion.We have already analyzed the barriers imposed by MS exclusionary agreements. These, as has been noted, are virtually insurmountable. This pattern of exclusionary contracts could be analyzed one by one and each would be seen not only as an agreement in restraint of trade violative of ‘1 of the Sherman Act but also, viewed collectively, as a powerful means of monopolizing. As a network of restrictions on others ability to obtain, sell and use the Navigator, these agreements are devastating to competition -...
