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Discusses the antitrust investigation against Microsoft Corp. as of May 1998. The involvement of Joel Klein, the assistant attorney-general and the United States government's top antitrust lawyer; Suggestion that it is likely that the Justice Department will claim that Microsoft has abused the mark...

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Published in:Economist Vol. 347; no. 8068; p. 70
Format: Article
Published: Economist Newspaper Limited 5/16/1998
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Summary:Discusses the antitrust investigation against Microsoft Corp. as of May 1998. The involvement of Joel Klein, the assistant attorney-general and the United States government's top antitrust lawyer; Suggestion that it is likely that the Justice Department will claim that Microsoft has abused the market power it derives from its monopoly of personal computer operating systems; The problem of what remedies the government should seek if it wins its case.