The Anti-Trust Case Against Microsoft Since 1990, a battle has raged in United States courts between the United States government and the Microsoft Corporation out of Redmond, Washington, headed by Bill Gates. What basically the entire lawsuit boils down to is money. The federal government maintains that Microsoft's monopolistic practices are harmful to United States citizens, creating higher prices and potentially downgrading software quality, and should therefore be stopped. Microsoft and its supporters claim that they …showed first 75 words of 2084 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2084 total…pertaining to them being a monopoly. I believe that the government should stay out of the affairs of the economy, rather than get tangled up in a mess, and just end up deadlocked like the FTC did in 1990. And even if the government did get involved, due to the extremely fast paced nature of the computer ! industry, and the extremely slow nature of the government, there may not be any resolve for quite a while.