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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: HiSpeed who wrote (11433)	10/19/1998 11:07:00 PM
From: Karin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

How is Microsoft responding-- It argues that Netscape's longtime dominance in the browser market proves the company had no difficulty distributing its product, and Netscape's recent slip in the market share is the result of that company's own mistakes and consumer choice, not monopolistic practices. Microsoft says the market price for browsers was set at zero by Netscape. In addition and perhaps most crucially, Netscape raised its prices at critical junctures and attempted to charge many of its customers supra-copetitive prices after having set the market price for its Web browsing technology at zero dollars. Microsoft claims that Internet Explorer and Windows operating systems are effectively one integrated product. A large body of case laws holds that technically interconnected products are immune from tying claims, as long as the interconnection achieves some technologically beneficial result.