Microsoft’s Proposed Remedies

In its own remedy proposals to Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, Microsoft says it will not

• Refuse or cancel license agreements with an OEM if the OEM ships or promotes non-Microsoft operating systems (OS) or middleware.
• Prevent OEMs from removing Internet Explorer (IE) icons from the desktop.
• Prevent OEMs from offering their own Internet sign-up process, or a different default browser.
• Induce companies to not distribute competing OSs or middleware by offering them visible promotion or position in a Microsoft OS.
• Deny an independent software vendor (ISV) access to technical information that Microsoft makes available to other ISVs, as long as the ISV complies with regular terms for accessing the information.
• Withhold a software product that is ready for release on a non-Microsoft platform because the platform vendor has a competing product (applicable to the release of Office on the Macintosh platform, for example).
• Raise the price of an old OS higher than the “existing price” of the