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...court did affirm the spirit of Jackson's conclusions - that Microsoft does have a monopoly in the market for computer operating systems and violated U.S. antitrust laws. But Jackson's radical solution of splitting up Microsoft looks to be dead, and the life and career of the white-haired bear of a district court judge will now be forever tainted by the appeals' court opinion...
...than many think, but there are two senses in which the Atlantic dialogue is moving onto new and, for Americans, unfamiliar ground. The first involves the growing economic power of the European Union. Welch allowed that he was "surprised" by the demands made by Mario Monti, the E.U.'s antitrust commissioner, which only goes to show that one of America's most respected CEOs can't always be well informed. The E.U. has been exercising jurisdiction over mergers between non-European firms for more than a decade, and under Monti's leadership has taken an aggressive line on anything that...
With European economies becoming more competitive, U.S.-trained lawyers are also in high demand there. "American laws and business structures--from antitrust to corporate law to securities law--are attuned to competitive product markets," says Harvard law professor Mark Roe. His Harvard colleague William Alford says U.S. law schools excel at "teaching problem solving," which makes their graduates broadly useful within corporations...
...still not the coolest guy in the room b) holding auditions for new antitrust lawyers c) saying goodbye to "Clippy," the Microsoft office mascot d) kind of intrigued...
...neighbors who never before had occasion to compete, are set to clash over the hearts, minds and $15 billion annual global sales of the video-game industry. It's a pretty even contest: Nintendo may have more than a century of arcade experience, but Microsoft has its bruised post-antitrust trial pride at stake--and nobody ever went broke overestimating Gates' ability to break a new market...