Even though the FTC Federal Trade Commission is finishing its probationary length for Microsoft, a few states in the United States are not. Why you ask? Well, I believe it's miles due to their in-country organizations in the excessive-tech field that they want to guard from Microsoft. For example in California the Attorneys General has met with enterprise leaders within the excessive-tech area and different kingdom legal professionals generals to extend sanctions.

A current story got here across the AP pointing out that the regulators wanted to extend the sanctions against Microsoft for five entire years longer. The US District Court become petitioned, by way of why? Surely it is for protectionism obstacles for California's high-tech competing corporations, exactly the equal issue this is happening in the EU, it's far approximately protectionism, trade limitations and precisely what Adam Smith warned us approximately.

Apparently, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly will remember this considering the fact that in November of 2007 the expiration of the agreement is over. If you'll don't forget the most important criticism on Microsoft became the bundling in their free Internet Browser for their clients and consequently no one changed into ever broken.

The businesses on the time that considered it a huge win have been groups like AOL, which turned out to have given some notable ahead looking statements costing shareholders thousands and thousands and almost bankrupting Ted Turner, who additionally got suckered into the deal from false incomes projections.

From a natural unfastened-economic declaration this on-going harassment of Microsoft does now not help the customers,tech industry layoffs nor does it assist opposition inside the marketplace, as a substitute it offers a bonus to Microsoft Competitors like Google and others who truely do no longer want it. And in doing so will cause them to lazy and for that reason unable to compete in greater fierce overseas markets. Economically speakme it's far a totally horrific idea and it speaks of hypocrisy.

Personally, I am involved approximately these varieties of instances, now not simplest here inside the US, in which they have to by no means arise, however round the world as others study our bad habits and ruin free-trade and free-agency making markets suspect and making groups susceptible. Sincerely, Lance.