Microsoft - A matter of sovereignty

With its ruling, the court has set a precedent that means Windows is no longer simply private property with which Microsoft can do as it pleases. And this will certainly apply to any other firm that manages to build a similarly crucial and long-lasting digital monopoly. Even today, with software increasingly delivered as a service over the internet, Windows is protected by something known as the "application barrier to entry", meaning that so many programs ... Full Story »

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Mike Carlson
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by Mike Carlson - Oct. 1, 2008

The article gives solid treatment to the basic anti-competitive strategy followed by Microsoft from its inception in the 1970's. Bill Gates should have stayed at Harvard long enough to understand the long term negative impact of the robber barons of the 1890's.

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