... Microsoft File : The ... vs. Micro- soft : What's Behind the Hate , ” Business Week , Sept. 27 , 1993 ( detailing the failed merger negotiations between the two firms and Novell's subsequent decision to materially encourage the FTC's ...
... and ( d ) rejected a 1995 proposal by Microsoft's competitors to break up the company . The FTC's Abortive Investigation The FTC began an investigation of Microsoft in 1990. The impetus was a concern that Microsoft and IBM had agreed to ...
... FTC's staff report concerning the need for the agency to adjust the FTC's competition enforcement mission so as not ... vs. Microsoft Will Flop . " InfoWorld 13 ( March 25 , 1991 ) : 42 . The author discusses the FTC's suit against ...
... and confidentiality of consumer information , such failure amounted to an unfair or deceptive act under the FTCA . As part of the agreement and consent order with the FTC , Eli ... FTC alleged that Microsoft failed to 24 CHAPTER 3.
... Microsoft case is one example. In 1994, the FTC began an inquiry into whether Microsoft was abusing its monopoly on personal computer operating systems by tying its web-browser, Internet Explorer, to its operating system and making it ...
... Microsoft has been the subject of a long and convoluted antitrust investigation . In 1990 , the Federal Trade Commission ( FTC ) began informally investigating Mi- crosoft . A major issue was whether Microsoft used its control of MS - DOS ...
... Microsoft, and the other targets of its enforcement pro- ceedings; and (2) the consent agreements entered into between the FTC and those companies ... FTC's Data Security Standard 2.1.1 The Content of the FTC's Data Security Standard.
... and Consumer Rights. Senator Herb Kohl August 12 , 2008 Page 2 Google For example , in connection with Google's acquisition of DoubleClick , Microsoft made submissions to the Federal Trade Commission asserting that the relevant market ...
... And it was leverage that had become a growing concern to lawyers with the FTC's Bureau of Competition throughout 1992 as they zeroed in on Microsoft's ... against Microsoft. The purpose of the report was to get Gates's attention and to ...
... and collaborators had no choice in the business world, the federal government provided an option that did not ... FTC's case. As one lawyer employed by a Microsoft opponent said, “Any lawyer inside any federal agency, if they can ...