Microsoft's $9 billion lawsuit against the top five secrets for the first time publicly

Beijing on July 14th news, according to foreign media reports, the Microsoft Corp from the day of its birth, to become the global software market giant today, with all kinds of legal disputes have been intertwined. If careful analysis of all the lawsuits Microsoft suffered, many people will be surprised. This is not only because Microsoft has 130 times with others in court, mainly because Microsoft for these lawsuits and spending huge amounts of money.

Data show that so far, Microsoft has spent $9 billion for legal disputes. Because many cases are still pending, so this figure is expected to continue to grow. In the $9 billion, including Microsoft's $2 million to pay for additional fees and charges, including Microsoft's $to pay for the nemesis Sun.

Through the analysis of Microsoft legal disputes, you can also find the following five characteristics:

- Microsoft encountered a lot of legal disputes, especially with the U.S. federal government legal disputes, mostly settled in the settlement, Microsoft is paying the price to the state's educational institutions to provide free coupons or free software. Therefore, some analysts said that in 1999 the legal dispute between Microsoft and the U.S. government has actually become a Microsoft to help apple to enter the exclusive market, Troy trojan".

Microsoft has repeatedly sued its investment companies, such as investing $5 billion to AT&T, $150 million to invest in Apple computers, as well as $26 million to invest in Immersion.

- while Microsoft has stressed that it does not violate the law in every legal action, there are signs that the company is willing to pay a large sum of money to settle with the plaintiff. In addition, Microsoft has never been in a legal dispute or be sentenced to heavy fines chained and thrown into prison, and Microsoft's business model is not any change.

For the past ten years, Microsoft has spent about $500 million on public relations and legal proceedings.

A lot of the time, Microsoft's cash is replaced with coupons, so Microsoft actually pay the amount of cash may be lower than the amount reported by the media.

So far, the Internet can be found in a total of 48 cases of legal disputes from Microsoft, which has a fine record of the 39, the other 9 cases have not been closed, or a fine record has not been disclosed.