Spencer Waller Market Quotations

I don't think it's a wildly adventurous case, but it shows they're looking at types of competitive restraints they didn't before. I'd sort of look at the government's ability to prove that there is a harm to competition in the sense of either effects on prices, or on the offering of new services in the markets they're concerned about. This isn't a slam-dunk where you prove something and you win. This case involved the economy, and it's much more complex.

The government is likely to prevail on the cumulative effect of how Microsoft's market power has prevented competition. A company that didn't have Microsoft's power could say they were just trying to be competitive.

They'll be pushing on what direction the market is taking and the issue of who is and who will be a competitive threat,

Microsoft is going to try to establish that there is vigorous competition in the marketplace. They're going to try to get admissions that Microsoft has less market power than is apparent, or that this venture can take away from any market power it does have.