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While new penalties were under consideration, the Clinton administration ended and the Bush administration took office. The judge who decided the original case was removed from the decision concerning the penalty due to public statements, and replaced by a judge more sympathetic to Microsoft. The proposed remedy (dividing Microsoft into two companies) was never applied.

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The small or non-existent market share of an aspiring competitor makes it prohibitively expensive for the aspirant to develop its PC operating system into an acceptable substitute for Windows. The large body of applications thus reinforces demand for Windows, augmenting Microsoft's dominant position and thereby perpetuating ISV incentives to write applications principally for Windows.

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impels ISVs (independent software vendors) to write applications first and foremost to Windows, thereby ensuring a large body of applications from which consumers can choose.

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The fact that there is a multitude of people using Windows makes the product more attractive to consumers.

The findings of fact go on to explain the nature of the "barrier to entry": Third, and largely as a result of that barrier, Microsoft's customers lack a commercially viable alternative to Windows. Second, Microsoft's dominant market share is protected by a high barrier to entry. First, Microsoft's share of the market for Intel-compatible PC operating systems is extremely large and stable. Viewed together, three main facts indicate that Microsoft enjoys monopoly power. The "findings of fact" during the antitrust case established that Microsoft has a monopoly in the PC desktop operating systems market:

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In a series of rulings by judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, the company was found to have violated its earlier consent decree and abused its monopoly in the desktop operating systems market. Microsoft was brought against the company. Īfter bundling the Internet Explorer web browser into its Windows operating system in the late 1990s (without requiring a separate purchase) and acquiring a dominant share in the web browser market, the antitrust case United States v. Ī Microsoft purchase of Intuit was scuttled in 1994 due to antitrust concerns that Microsoft would be purchasing a major competitor. Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson entered the decree on August 21, 1995, three days before the launch of Windows 95. Later that spring, a three-judge federal appeals panel removed Sporkin and reassigned the consent decree. On FebruJudge Stanley Sporkin issued a 45-page opinion that the consent decree was not in the public interest. In a consent decree filed on July 15, 1994, Microsoft agreed to a deal under which, among other things, the company would not make the sale of its operating systems conditional on the purchase of any other Microsoft product. Critics attest that it also used predatory tactics to price its competitors out of the market and that Microsoft erected technical barriers to make it appear that competing products did not work on its operating system.

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In the 1990s, Microsoft adopted exclusionary licensing under which PC manufacturers were required to pay for an MS-DOS license even when the system shipped with an alternative operating system. The rulings described above may be cited as a precedent in other competition law proceedings.