SSC MTS EXAM

SSC

GENERAL ECONOMICS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What practice did Microsoft get in trouble for in the 90’s?
A
predatory pricing
B
price discrimination
C
non-price competition
D
exclusionary practices
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Microsoft was accused of trying to create a monopoly that led to the collapse of rival Netscape by giving its browser software for free. Charges were brought against the company which was sued by the Department of Justice in 1998.

Detailed explanation-2: -An intellectual property lawsuit against Microsoft may determine the future of AI. It charges that Microsoft, the Microsoft code repository GitHub, and OpenAI, the parent of ChatGPT, have illegally used code created by others in order to build and train the Copilot service that uses AI to write software.

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