Stanford libraries official online search tool for books media journals databases government documents and more. Microsoft did not violate the antitrust laws it was simply the winner take all nature of the industry that made it act this way and gave it market dominance by this definition virtually no act could violate the antitrust laws in this industry3 9 robert bork the most misunderstood antitrust case wall st j may 22 1998. Microsoft was the largest and most pre eminent of the new economy firms and the antitrust case was the first to highlight the question of whether traditional antitrust regulation would promote the public good when applied to new economy firms now ten years later the microsoft antitrust case remains an important consideration with respect to . What was the microsoft antitrust case the microsoft antitrust case came to be one of the high profile cases a few decades ago in the 1990s us federal regulators sued microsoft which was at that time the worlds leading software company. Antitrust abuse in the new economy the microsoft case 9781840649284 international business books amazoncom