Word: antitrust
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Such diktats, however, do not seem to apply to the DOJ suit, potentially the grimmest piece of news Microsoft has received in its 24-year existence. "This antitrust thing will blow over," a lackadaisical Gates told Intel executives back in 1995. When the government's complaint finally hit his desk in 1998, according to his own testimony, the software titan refused to read a word of it. Given the chance to reassess his videotaped Q. and A. in the light of its disastrous courtroom debut, CEO Gates conceded only that he should have "smiled a bit." As Gates the author...
...there ever was a time for Microsoft employees to slap their boss with a reality check, this is it. The antitrust trial is on a six-week hiatus. Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson urged the two sides to come up with a settlement in the interim. Intel settled its suit with the FTC last week before the case even went to court, sidestepping the kind of white-hot publicity that has roasted Microsoft. And yet the only word to come out of Redmond is a leaked memo from Microsoft lawyer David Heiner to the executive team. Shunning all evidence...
...faces of Gates irreconcilable? Not entirely. Both are in love with e-mail, even though one has been publicly burned by his. In this antitrust case, Gates' In and Out boxes are the nearest things to a smoking gun, as far as the feds are concerned. Among their favorite extracts: "Winning Internet browser share is very important to us," "Do we have a clear plan on what we want Apple to do to undermine Sun?" and "I think there is a very powerful deal of some kind we could do with Netscape...
Your report on what might happen if Microsoft loses the antitrust case against it presages bad news for the giant corporation [BUSINESS, March 1]. However, I hope the court will realize that a whopping fine, the breakup of Microsoft or some such punitive action will be hurtful on a large scale to the millions of shareholders and citizens whose income is related to the company's success. MURRAY BROMBERG Bellmore...
Republicans know at least two things about Microsoft: it is an $11 billion enterprise and, thanks to the antitrust suit brought against it by the Clinton Justice Department, it is willing to invest some of that money in the G.O.P. So when Microsoft was listed as a "table sponsor" for last week's gala dinner of the National Republican Congressional Committee, indicating a $25,000 donation, nobody was startled. The surprise may come as further Microsoft contributions are tallied in coming months. Sources tell TIME that the committee's top officials have asked the software giant for $1 million--which...