Microsoft Antitrust Agreement Spurred Innovation, U.S. Says
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Microsoft Corp.’s nine-year-old antitrust agreement with the U.S. Justice Department, set to expire today, permanently changed the software marketplace, making it more open, fair and innovative, the agency said.
The final judgment in the Microsoft case, in effect since 2002, prevented the company from using its monopoly Windows operating system for personal computing to quash competition, the department said yesterday in a statement.