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Microsoft Versus the Department of Justice

t also disclosed that a non-Microsoft browser will be affected in such a way that it will function relatively inconveniently. According to this new scheme, in every instance where the computer operator clicks on a built-in system "shortcut" to visit a website, Windows will automatically send them there via Internet Explorer, no matter what choice the user has selected for the default browser settings.There is not a company that is able to withstand these types of attacks by Microsoft. They are aware of that fact and use tactics to stifle competition probably more often than we are aware. Lacking any serious competition Microsoft will have no incentive to produce effective applications, with new and innovative features in a punctual fashion. Quality control would be non-existant and customer service will be as well. Unsatisfied consumers will have no recourse for action. It was also known that Microsoft would keep competition out of the arena by buying a new product and simply never introducing it. An inventor would show the new product to Microsoft and they would show interest and purchase the product. At times they would even introduce the product but it would never be sold. They would simply discard it to keep it out of the marketplace. Who knows what kind of products Microsoft has kept from the consumer? Another tactic would be to make a programmer sign a contract with Microsoft. In the contract they would include that they could not guarantee that they would not steal the product and market it as their own. So the programmer did not have a say if they were included as the developer or not, or even worse not get paid for their invention. With no intervention from the Department of justice, Microsoft would continue unimpeded in its quest for entire market domination. Microsoft's misdirection campaign, monopolies go against the cause of free market capitalism. To put restraints on Microsoft the Department of Justic...

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