All sides agreed that the software had many satisfied customers and that the computer software capabilities were

compatible with Windows. Software that Microsoft and other companies produced had expanded dramatically in the

1990s. Having a monopoly or a near-monopoly is not necessarily illegal in and of itself, but in cases where one

company controls a great deal of the market, antitrust regulators look at any allegations of restrictive practices with

special care.

The antitrust regulators argued that Microsoft had gone beyond profiting from its software innovations and its

dominant position in the software market for operating systems, and had tried to use its market power in operating

systems software to take over other parts of the software industry. For example, the government argued that

Microsoft had engaged in an anticompetitive form of exclusive dealing by threatening computer makers that, if they
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