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Kenneth Flamm provides a wide-ranging analysis of a number of important issues in the areas of information technology and telecommunications. In the process, he shows how dangerous it is to try to predict how these sectors will develop. Nevertheless, he is willing to offer some advice for antitrust authorities on the hottest issue of the day — what to do about Microsoft’s extension into the market for new products, such as Internet browsers. I find that I have few differences with most of Flamm’s analysis, but I would surely be less assertive about the possible benefits of any attempt to force Microsoft to erect “Chinese walls” and to provide advance information about changes in its operating systems to its competitors in downstream product markets.
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Crandall, R.W. (1999). Digital Convergence?. In: Eisenach, J.A., Lenard, T.M. (eds) Competition, Innovation and the Microsoft Monopoly: Antitrust in the Digital Marketplace. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4407-0_13
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