Word: antitrust
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This would create two or three "Baby Bills," similar to the Baby Bells spawned by the court-ordered breakup of AT&T. Each of these mini-Microsofts would be nearly identical, selling the same software but in competition with one another. George Washington University law professor Bill Kovacic, an antitrust expert, calls this a "radical chemo-therapy" option. Notwithstanding the AT&T and Standard Oil cases, he says, judges are often reluctant to go this far in restructuring an errant monopolist...
WEAKNESSES MSN, RIP. Still waiting for that next-generation portal, guys NEXT MOVE Loses in antitrust court, wins on appeal, goes on Web shopping spree...
...room" with two grads from his computer-science program--PETER CREATH, 23, and CHRISTIAN HICKS, 24--and stuck a tape in the VCR. Up came Microsoft's demonstration of how Felten's program to remove Internet Explorer made Windows run slower, important evidence for the defense in the ongoing antitrust suit. Almost immediately, all three were off the couch. Simultaneously, Hicks remembers, they'd spotted that the title bar was wrong, that the computer in that screenshot hadn't been "Feltenized." Upshot: Microsoft's most embarrassing week yet at the federal courthouse, as a company of 29,000 employees scrambled...
...direct rival. The company has become increasingly concerned about the breakneck speed at which those companies are forming alliances. America Online is buying Netscape, At Home is buying Excite, Lucent is acquiring Ascend Communications--all deals worked out since the start of the antitrust trial. "This is a yeasty industry," says Microsoft general counsel William Neukom. "It's important to realize how fast things move." Of course, none of the deals is focused on operating-system software, so none poses a direct threat to the dominance of Windows. But that doesn't stop Microsoft from worrying...
...insulate such huge funds from government direction," he said. That's Greenspanese for a simple concern: by investing some $700 billion in Social Security funds, the government-cum-shareholder would inject politics into the free market and unduly influence corporate decision-making. Would the government, for example, bring an antitrust or discrimination suit against a company it (partially) owns...