Word: monopolist
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Justice, for its part, insists it is fully committed to pursuing Microsoft, which, after all, even a Republican-dominated federal appeals court has now branded a monopolist. The department gave up on the breakup and the tying claim, it said in a statement, "to streamline the case with the goal of securing an effective remedy as quickly as possible." In fact, both of the now abandoned issues would have required the production of piles of evidence, followed by lengthy hearings. Adding credibility to Justice's explanation are the 18 state attorneys general, parties to the suit, who followed the Federal...
...feds were careful to point out that since an appellate court has signed off on their monopolist charge, the government "believes it has established a basis for relief that would end Microsoft's unlawful conduct, prevent its recurrence and open the operating-systems market to competition." Translation: The lawyers will be watching for signs that the boys from Redmond are abusing their power - and ready to pounce with new lawsuits...
...picked up 20% of the shares in Montedison. That position seemed to constitute a serious challenge to Montedison's Mediobanca-approved management. The center-left government of Giuliano Amato then passed a decree freezing EDF's voting rights in Montedison at 2%. The reasoning: EDF is a protected monopolist in France. So it's not cricket for it to generate an easy $30 billion in annual sales and then turn around and snap up companies that actually have to compete. This is where Fiat stepped in. It has forged an alliance with EDF, financier Romain Zaleski and several banks...
...minded. The efficiencies of the GE-Honeywell deal would have brought prices down in the near-term; even Monti acknowledged that. But down the road, the EU worried that those lower prices would eventually starve the competition - especially the European competition - out of business. End result: one dominant company, monopolist's prices...
None of these links were essential, so I'm not too worried about Microsoft's playing favorites--yet. But since the company is a convicted monopolist, at least in the eyes of a U.S. district-court judge, you have to wonder where all this will lead...