Late last month, the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit found Microsoft guilty of violating the nation's antitrust laws. So far, Microsoft has apparently not noticed. In an unsigned and unanimous opinion, the court held that the company had used its monopoly power to protect itself against competition. The court also rejected Microsoft's proposed rule for determining whether its bundling of Windows and Internet Explorer was illegal. Microsoft insisted that bundling was legal so long as it had some "plausible benefit," but the court held that bundling would constitute a crime if the government demonstrates it has an anticompetitive effect.
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