A Tale of Two EC Cases: IBM and Microsoft

Arguably the largest abuse of dominance case in Europe before Microsoft was the IBM case of the early 1980s. Both cases were about interoperability and bundling, and both followed litigation in the United States. Unlike Microsoft, the European IBM case was settled without a decision being taken, so the public record is thin.

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Year of publication:	2009
Authors:	Vickers, John
Published in:	Antitrust Chronicle. - Competition Policy International. - Vol. 1.2009, 1
Publisher:	Competition Policy International

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Type of publication:	Article
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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A Tale of Two EC Cases: <i>IBM</i> and <i>Microsoft</i>