The biggest antitrust news in the States in the past month (and perhaps in the latter half of this century!) has been the filing by the United States Department of Justice on behalf of the US government and, in separate papers, the filing by 20 state governments in the US of suits against Microsoft. All these actions were filed on May 18th. However, none of them is targeted to delaying the roll out of Windows '98, which is reported to be progressing on schedule.
At the heart of all of these actions is the question of the extent to which Microsoft is improperly leveraging market power in the operating system represented by its Windows product into other fields where it does not, as yet, have market power. Foremost among these fields is the Internet Browser which is not only a valuable set of computer tools in its own right for accessing the Internet but also has the capability of enabling the user to avoid dependence on Microsoft's Windows product. As
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