11.   If companies are using their monopoly position to exploit consumers, Tauzin said the FCC should investigate those allegations.

12.   In antitrust law, however, a company as dominant as Microsoft plays under different rules than distant competitors with little hope of gaining a monopoly position.

13.   In its ruling, the appeals court found that Microsoft was a monopolist that had illegally defended its monopoly position.

14.   Indeed, some analysts said the industry was pushing its rates now primarily to capitalize on its monopoly position.

15.   In trying to build a market for its Internet Explorer, however, Microsoft illegally exploited its monopoly position in computer operating systems, Jackson ruled.

16.   Microsoft has bought out or shut down a myriad of competitors and shrewdly enhanced its monopoly position.

17.   Still, the courts over the years have been reluctant to break up companies unless their monopoly position was obtained illegally or through mergers.

18.   The use of a monopoly position to insulate that monopoly from competitive challenge violates the antitrust laws.

19.   They saw Microsoft as an antitrust recidivist, an aggressive monopolist that two federal courts had said had bullied its rivals and abused its monopoly position in the industry.

20.   Though applications do not create as powerful a monopoly position, the leader in any category still enjoys outsized growth.