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...segment ended before Gates could help make scented candles, but Microsoft's point had been made. Gates' TV appearance was part of a two-pronged effort: a Microsoft p.r. campaign to counter those famously snarly Gates videotapes, and a courtroom defense, begun in earnest last week, to fight the antitrust charges against the company. At the center of both is Microsoft's peculiar vision of the computer world and its place in that realm. Microsoft sincerely sees itself as a force for good--bringing PC users technical innovation and consumer value--and far from being a powerful monopoly, feels threatened...
...that Clinton didn't engage him on his favorite topic, technology. When the golfing ended, the two men went their separate ways. Gates didn't take sides in the Clinton-Dole election a couple of years later. Clinton let his Justice Department pursue a potentially devastating antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft...
Both Bills have been survivors all their lives, and for now that pattern seems to be holding. Clinton's approval ratings have risen since the Lewinsky scandal broke. And Gates' personal wealth has increased over 500% since the antitrust case was filed. After months of being maligned by prosecutors, both men will have a chance this week to put forth their defense. Clinton will deny that he engaged in perjury and obstruction of justice, and argue that the charges against him do not rise to the level of impeachable offenses. Microsoft will contend that it is not a monopoly, that...
...here, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson hasn't exactly been sympathetic to the company; the software Goliath is almost certainly looking to a higher court for vindication. "The court of appeals and the Supreme Court have shown themselves recently to be very reluctant to rule against companies in antitrust cases," notes Cohen. For now, Gates can keep those Hail Mary plays...
Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, the colorful arbiter presiding over the jury-free Microsoft antitrust trial, yesterday interrupted Microsoft's cross-examination of the last government witness to ponder outside comments from America Online's Steve Case. Could AOL's chief become the star witness in the biggest antitrust trial since the Model T? MORE...