Winners, Losers & Microsoft

Few issues in high technology are as divisive as the current debate over competition, innovation, and antitrust. Analyzing famous examples of economic lock-in by dominant corporations of supposedly inferior products, this book makes the case that free markets in high technology industry deliver better products to consumers, at lower prices, without government intervention. This publication's careful scholarship, well-founded hypotheses, and refutations of previously accepted theoriesextending far beyond the Microsoft casemake this publication a vital piece of understanding for the future of technology and economics.