t is willing to negotiate ways to alter Windows screens.
Its contract with Internet service providers aren’t exclusionary because they don’t block Netscape’s competing browser from being available to the public.
Windows is not a monopoly, but instead competes against other operating systems made by Apple, IBM and others.
Any new feature, such as the tight integration of Internet Explorer with Windows 98, that offers technological advancement is legitimate, even if the underlying product does have a monopoly.
Windows 95 and Windows 98 are copyrighted works and as such are protected by federal copyright law, granting Microsoft rights the outweigh antitrust state laws.
What is underlying the competing versions of this story is the very nature of capitalism and the technology industry themselves. In the government’s previous antitrust suits, the focus has been on price and market dominance, like the government’s dismantling of the Standard Oil Co. of John D. Rockefeller.
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