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Gates recognized, the development of competing Internet browsers - specialized software programs that allow PC users to locate, access, display, and manipulate content and applications located on the Internet's World Wide Web ('the web') - posed a serious potential threat to Microsoft's Windows operating system monopoly. One important current source of potential competition for Microsoft's Windows operating system monopoly comes from the Internet, described by Microsoft's CEO, Bill Gates, in May 1995 as 'the most important single development to come along since the IBM PC was introduced in 1981.' As Mr. Microsoft's conduct includes agreements tying other Microsoft software products to Microsoft's Windows operating system exclusionary agreements precluding companies from distributing, promoting, buying, or using products of Microsoft's software competitors or potential competitors and exclusionary agreements restricting the right of companies to provide services or resources to Microsoft's software competitors or potential competitors.Ħ.

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To protect its valuable Windows monopoly against such potential competitive threats, and to extend its operating system monopoly into other software markets, Microsoft has engaged in a series of anticompetitive activities. Accordingly, the most significant potential threat to Microsoft's operating system monopoly is not from a direct, frontal assault by existing or new operating systems, but from new software products that may support, or themselves become, alternative 'platforms' to which applications can be written, and which can be used in conjunction with multiple operating systems, including but not limited to Windows.ĥ. Because end users want a large number of applications available, because most applications today are written to run on Windows, and because it would be prohibitively difficult, time-consuming, and expensive to create an alternative operating system that would run the programs that run on Windows, a potential new operating system entrant faces a high barrier to successful entry.Ĥ.

One of the most important barriers to entry is the barrier created by the number of software applications that must run on an operating system in order to make the operating system attractive to end users. PC manufacturers (often referred to as Original Equipment Manufacturers, or 'OEMs') have no commercially reasonable alternative to Microsoft operating systems for the PCs that they distribute.ģ. There are high barriers to entry in the market for PC operating systems. More than 90% of new Intel-based PCs are shipped with a version of Windows pre-installed. Microsoft's 'Windows' operating systems are used on over 80% of Intel-based PCs, the dominant type of PC in the United States. Microsoft possesses (and for several years has possessed) monopoly power in the market for personal computer operating systems. This is an action under Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act to restrain anticompetitive conduct by defendant Microsoft Corporation ('Microsoft'), the world's largest supplier of computer software for personal computers ('PCs'), and to remedy the effects of its past unlawful conduct.Ģ.

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