Microsoft's Battle in Europe

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This report reviews several articles from the beginning of the European Antitrust lawsuit against software giant, Microsoft. The paper first reviews articles released before the European Council's guilty verdict was delivered and then reviews a few articles that were dated after the guilty verdict. The paper then compares reporting styles and angles to see if the media stayed consistent. The articles reviewed are appended.

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"It is funny, but articles that were released after the guilty verdict implied that the United States and Europe did not see eye to eye with the outcome of the case. This is ironic considering that the United States anti-trust legal team has been consistently attacking the Microsoft for the exact same offenses the company was defending in Europe. "The case reflected a growing feeling among a section of America's ruling elite that the US was in danger of losing out to its economic rivals in Japan and Europe because, in protecting its dominant place in the market for desktop computers, Microsoft was actually retarding the development of new technologies emerging around the Internet." (European antitrust case finds against Microsoft) As it seems Europe is trying to regain control of its own technology opportunities, Americans may get the impression that the media is trying to start a type anti-European sentiment to protect the American advantage of technology sales. In Europe the media suggests breaking up Microsoft and in America they no longer believe that breaking up the company makes sense. Prior to the European ruling, the United States felt that the only way to curb Microsoft from monopolistic business practices was to curb the predatory and illegal practices inherent to the company through break up. Since the European verdict, the American government seems to have taken the approach of sharing as opposed to breakup."

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