To understand the strategies governing competition in the market for software platforms, it is necessary to consider three distinct but interconnected fields: technological, economic and legal.The first part of this paper is devoted to the synthetic description of some indispensable technical...

In this paper we discuss some of the most important economic issues raised in European Commission vs. Microsoft (2004) concerning the market for work group servers. In our view, the most important economic issues relate to (a) foreclosure incentives and (b) innovation effects of the proposed...