I. Introduction On May 30, 1990, the Federal Trade Commission opened up an antitrust investigation on the Microsoft Corporation on charges that the company’s pricing policy pertaining to their Windows Operation System illegally thwarted competition and that there was hidden code in their operation system that hindered competitive applications to run. Microsoft continues to battle this attempt by the government to regulate to this day. The leading software company in the world provides the software for …showed first 75 words of 1422 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1422 total…any fields in the computer industry, then the consumers will be left with no choice but to support Microsoft no matter what happens. Prices could sky rocket, quality could plummet, and all because the monopoly could not be stopped until it was too late. Although Microsoft products might be better, especially when using them intertwined with one another, the elimination of competition - intended or not - is never to the benefit of the consumers.