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radiorahim
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posted 28 February 2006 07:34 PM      Profile for radiorahim     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Another unhappy Microsoft customer:

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Microsoft has been hit with yet another antitrust claim, this time from a partner that alleges that the software vendor abused its market dominance to extract exorbitant fees from OEMs, distributors and resellers for its operating system licenses.

Tangent, an OEM based in Burlingame, Calif., filed a complain Feb. 14 in U.S. District Court for Northern California, seeking an unnamed amount from the software giant, claiming the software maker has been able to overcharge for its operating system as result of Microsoft's "artificial" market dominance.

"Because Microsoft, through its exclusionary practices, eliminated its competitors from the market and has blocked entry of new competitors and expansion of existing rivals, it has been able to increase, maintain or stabilize prices at anticompetitive levels" since the late 1980s, the complaint said.


channelinsider.com article

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economist
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posted 10 March 2006 05:25 AM      Profile for economist        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
microsoft is not a monopoly, any real economist will tell you that.
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Clog-boy
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posted 10 March 2006 08:53 AM      Profile for Clog-boy   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
No, microsoft is smart enough to stay within the legal boundries of creating a monopoly...
Yet the way they dominate the market almost makes one think some Faustian pact has been forged..!

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