to put a stop to any chance of them forming a true monopoly of the operating system market and of the entire software market. On one side of the issue, there are the people who feel that Microsoft should be left alone, at least for the time being. With Microsoft creating the standards for the rest of the computer industry, they are able to create better standards and build them much faster than if an outside organization or committee were to create them. With these standards set, other companies are able to create their applications and other products that are much faster, better, and thus the customers receive that much better of a product. Another conclusion that many anti-Microsoft people and other people around the world jump to is that the moment that we have a company such as Microsoft, who is very successful, they immediately think that there must be something wrong, that they have to be doing something illegal or immoral to have become this immense. Contrary to popular belief, Microsoft has not gained its enormous popularity through monopolistic and illegal measures, but instead through superior products. One of the biggest proponents of government intervention into the Microsoft issue is Netscape Communications, based out of Mountain View, California. Netscape filed lawsuits accusing Microsoft of tying. This time, Microsoft started bundling their World Wide Web browser, Internet Explorer 3.0, into their operating system, Windows 95. Netscape is the maker of Netscape Navigator, which was the most widely used Internet browser on the market at this time. Netscape says that in addition to bundling the browser, Microsoft was offering Windows at a discount to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), to feature Internet Explorer on the desktop of the computers that they shipped, thus elimination any competition for space on the desktop by rival companies such as Netscape. If the OEM wants to give the consumer a fair and ev...
